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Maltreated adults were surveyed over a period of years to help researchers understand the role that childhood maltreatment plays in negative short- and long-term physical, emotional, financial, psychological, and social effects, as well as in adult-onset criminal behaviors and activities. Through multiple research studies conducted over years by the CDC-Keiser Permanente Group using the ACE-Q Survey, along with other independent researchers such as Dr. Morono and his research team that used the Behavior Sequence Analysis Method, a link was discovered between childhood maltreatment and negative and/or criminal behaviors and events that impacted every area of the victim’s life and throughout the victim’s lifetime. Studies concluded that childhood maltreatment is most often generational, and that adolescent males who were maltreated as children have a much higher probability of turning into violent criminals later into adulthood than adolescent males who were not maltreated. One of the biggest questions researchers, communities, and individuals have lies in what constitutes violent criminal behavior. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, or UCR, states that violent crime is comprised of four specific offenses. They are as follows: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. It further defines violent crimes as being offenses which entail force or the threat of force. If the ACE-Q Survey was used to identify and treat adolescent maltreated males at a young age, then there is hope that future violent criminal behaviors and activities later into adulthood can be prevented or minimized at the very least.

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