When Editor Trulson asked me to guest edit a special issue of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, I took some time to reflect on how best to position my primary area of interest—developmental criminology—within the scope of the journal’s focus. Some of the more recent work from this paradigm has concentrated on the impact of early traumatic experiences on subsequent offending. Indeed, scholars have demonstrated that those with a higher exposure to early trauma are more likely to be violent juvenile offenders—one of the primary areas of attention for this journal. This special issue thus represented a unique opportunity to ask several of my colleagues to contribute articles on the theme Developmental Perspectives on Youth Violence: The Role of Trauma and Other Life Experiences. I am extremely grateful to each of the authors who contributed to this special issue and believe the work presented in this issue represent an important contribution to the field. The studies are also representative of a wide variety of research designs as they include samples from the US, Canada, and Australia and include not only non-experimental designs but randomized controlled trials as well.

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来宾编辑的来信

当特鲁尔逊（Trulson）编辑要求我客座编辑《青年暴力与少年司法》特刊时，我花了一些时间来思考如何在该杂志的关注范围内最佳地定位我的主要兴趣领域（发展犯罪学）。该范例的一些最新工作集中在早期创伤经历对随后犯罪的影响上。的确，学者们已经证明，那些遭受早期创伤的人更多是暴力少年犯，这是该期刊关注的主要领域之一。因此，本期特刊提供了一个难得的机会，可以请我的一些同事撰写有关青年暴力的发展观点：创伤和其他生活经历的主题的文章。。我非常感谢为该期特刊做出贡献的每位作者，并相信本期发表的论文对这一领域做出了重要贡献。这些研究还代表了各种各样的研究设计，因为它们包括来自美国，加拿大和澳大利亚的样本，不仅包括非实验设计，还包括随机对照试验。