Legislatures and courts across the country have put reforms in place to address the service-related trauma underlying patterns of veterans engaging in criminal activity and violence. This comes as the link between substance abuse and violence, like the link between military service and subsequent mental health issues, becomes widely recognized.
Similarities can be drawn between the experiences of veterans and youth in the juvenile justice system. By the time youth first enter the justice system, the vast majority of them have witnessed and/or have been victim to some type of violence and are struggling to cope with the fallout of those experiences.
[For more of this story, written by Nisha Ajmani, go to http://jjie.org/like-our-veter...ivors-of-war/108940/]
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