Crime? It's All Trauma's Fault!!!

More psychobabble about criminals.

There's something called the "ACE Test".

...Most versions of the test ask 10 basic yes-or-no questions. When you were growing up, did a parent or adult in the house beat you? Touch you sexually? Ignore or humiliate you? Were any of them alcoholics? Drug users? Imprisoned? Suicidal?

A person scoring four or more is at "high risk" of struggling with depression and addiction, and enters adulthood with less ability to manage stress, navigate relationships and maintain employment. For those who score six or higher, life expectancy drops 20 years....

Note well:  'parent or other adult in the house'.  That's the Evasion Game at work.  It's been known for decades that single-parent homes produce problems at a far greater rate than two-parent homes.

...Youths are more vulnerable to trauma because they lack the power to respond and lack the understanding and maturity to know how to cope with the wrong done to them, said Yael Danieli, a psychologist who founded and directs the International Center for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. 

“These traumas are passed down from generation to generation, and unless the cycle is broken through a resilient person or through counseling, then the person being abused will continue this behavior,” she said in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel interview. ...

You forgot an option, Yael:  life in prison.

 ...Black youths are more than four times as likely than their white peers to be detained or committed in juvenile facilities, according to nationwide data released last year and reported by The Sentencing Project....

Maybe that's because SEVENTY-TWO PERCENT of black children are raised in single-parent households. 

Maybe the J-S reporter and her psychologist pal should spend a couple of years on 'ride-along' with the 5th District cops.

They might learn something, assuming they survive.  Then they could go on the lecture circuit and promote marriage before children, kinda like what God had in mind.