Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common for African Americans, for as early as 1935, criminal justice in the United States was identified across nations and the offocused on racial minorities across the nation. Dealing with juvenile delinquencies, youth was of the 57.4 percentile of arrest for manslaughter and 67.8 percent of arrests for robbery. In total, the U.S. adolescent population was 15 percent. Some common factors in contribute tocontributing risk factors are that African Americans are living in an areain areas with high unemployment, high poverty rates, and a few social and economic opportunities as risk factors. Even African AmericansAmericans' social networking factors, such as gangs and, lack of contributing to a beneficial outcome, loose negotiation, or just communication with others as anotherare some other risk factorfactors. For young children, early drug use is being used as acontributing to disruptive behavior, which meansleads to lack of academic achievement and decreased and bonding. Childhood cruelCruel treatment and physical abuse during childhood are both significantly correlated with juvenile delinquencies. As, as well as childhood trauma such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect as significant; all factors ofin predicting levels of violent aand nonviolent crimes and status offenses. Racial minorities in a neighborhood are correlated with juvenile delinquency, the. The significance of the correlation diminishes further, once socioeconomic status is taken ininto account. Race-based stressful incidents produce psychological and emotional injury similar to PTSD, such assimilar to rape or combat. The youth were correlatedassociated with numerous negative consequences, including depressive symptoms, decreased self-esteem, and lifelow life satisfaction. In conclusion, researchers were able to examine athe self-reported experienceexperiences of discrimination of incarcerated African American youthyouths and the relationships between these experiences: crime types, severity, and frequency. Lastly, the researchers examined the relationships amongof trauma, trauma symptoms, experiences of racial discrimination, and delinquency. 

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