The Suitability of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire in Criminal Offender Samples.

ABSTRACT: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common in community samples and are associated with various dysfunctional physical, psychological, and behavioral consequences. In this regard, criminal offenders are at specific risk, considering their elevated ACE rates compared with community samples and the associations of ACEs with criminal behaviors. However, assessing ACEs in offender samples by self-reports has been criticized with regard to their validity and reliability. We examined the suitability of ACE-self-reports using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) in a sample of 231 male offenders involved in the German criminal justice system by comparing self-reported to externally rated ACEs to externally rated ACEs based on the information from the offenders' criminal and health-relate

SUBMITTER: Wente VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10048956 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature