Legal issue

Childhood Trauma & Mitigation

How a juvenile's history of adversity, abuse, and family/home environment bears on mitigation in charging and sentencing -- including Miller's family-and-home-environment factor.

Claims under this issue

At the population level, childhood adversity -- adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction, and a harmful family or home environment -- is associated with an elevated risk of adolescent antisocial and delinquent conduct, in a graded, dose-response pattern (more cumulative adversity, higher average risk).
Evidence strength: HighScientific consensus: Established· childhood adversity / developmental criminology