Examining Trauma and Crime by Gender and Sexual Orientation among Youth: Findings from the Add Health National Longitudinal Study

LGBTQ youth, and in particular those of color, are significantly more at risk for experiencing trauma home their community, having school difficulties including bullying suspensions, subsequently being involved with the juvenile criminal justice systems. Research is limited understanding pathways these young people take toward youthful adult offending incarceration. The national longitudinal Add Health study data were used to explain how trauma, sexual orientation (gay, bisexual), experiences, gender, race impacted activity incarceration—looking a trauma-delinquency-crime link. It was found that females likely experience childhood if they person poor, or bisexual; traumatic experiences all direct predictors activity, as bisexual gay. While males color but not gay, (though gay) also predicted delinquency, Implications discussion other researcher’s findings set forth, well recommendations.