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A new paper released by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a strong association between a high number of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and contact with the U.S. justice system. Analyzing data from eleven studies, the researchers found that results were consistent across multiple types of justice system contact and across diverse geographic regions of the country. The findings are published in
Pediatrics. We found consistent evidence that higher ACE scores are associated with greater risks of juvenile justice system contact in the United States, said Gloria Graf, a doctoral student in epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School, and first author.
Researchers show link between adverse childhood experiences and justice system contact
A new paper released by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a strong association between a high number of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and contact with the U.S. justice system. Analyzing data from eleven studies, the researchers found that results were consistent across multiple types of justice system contact and across diverse geographic regions of the country. The findings are published in
Pediatrics.
We found consistent evidence that higher ACE scores are associated with greater risks of juvenile justice system contact in the United States.
Gloria Graf, Doctoral student, Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School
Dec. 9, 2020
When President Trump banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries as one of his first executive orders in 2017, fears of family separation and disrupted refugee resettlement were widespread. But few people were sounding the alarm about its potential impact on birth outcomes.
Now, research suggests that the stress associated with the travel ban increased preterm births for women from those seven countries. A study from the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health found that women from the impacted countries living in the United States saw an almost 7 percent increase in their chances of delivering preterm from September 2017 to August 2018. White women born in the United States saw no change in their odds of having a preterm birth during the same period, which started eight months after the ban.