Research shows physical changes happen in a child's brain once they experience trauma. It's now believed those changes lay the foundation for other issues later in life that could lead those children to juvenile court.
"If you are traumatized emotionally, physiologically, or in other ways, it's a little harder to tell that that's happened," Dr. Althea Stewart said.
Stewart is the director of the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth.
Children often internalize the traumatic life changing events, an event that can often lead them to a life of crime and it could become a never-ending cycle. It's not a broken bone or scraped knee, an injury that can be seen.
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