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Clinical Psychology and Special Education
2018. Vol. 7, no. 3, 66–83
doi:10.17759/cpse.2018070304
ISSN: 2304-0394 (online)

Offense Situation Experience as a Traumatic Event Among Adolescents Being in Conflict with the Law

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A. Velikotskaya, K.D. Khlomov, S.N. Enikolopov, A.G. Efremov

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Abstract

Present article describes the results of the study of the experience of the situation of the offense by adolescents who have come into conflict with the law as a traumatic event. The study involved 129 adolescents 15-17 years. The target group included 31 15-16-year-olds on probation and 33 17-year-olds serving sentences in the Mozhaisk educational colony. The control group consisted of 32 teenagers 15 years 33 teenagers 17 and 32 students 21-23 years. The study carried out using the technique of Scale assessment of the impact of traumatic events (Impact of Event Scale-R, IES-R). The results obtained describe how adolescents, which committed a crime, perceive the situation of the offense, especially if it was associated with causing significant physical harm to a particular person. Adolescents serving sentences in a colony experience the most intense feelings about the situation of the offence, and their experiences are traumatic.

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Keywords: adolescence, juvenile crime, the situation of the offense, psychological trauma, experience

Journal rubric: Empirical Research

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpse.2018070304

Funding. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities (project 15-36-01317 «Life trajectories in adolescence: the optimal choice models»).

For citation: Velikotskaya A., Khlomov K.D., Enikolopov S.N., Efremov A.G. Offense Situation Experience as a Traumatic Event Among Adolescents Being in Conflict with the Law [Elektronnyi resurs]. Klinicheskaia i spetsial'naia psikhologiia = Clinical Psychology and Special Education, 2018. Vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 66–83. DOI: 10.17759/cpse.2018070304. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Anastasia Velikotskaya, Social therapist, Support Center of Family Education «Sokolenok», Moscow, Russia, e-mail: avelikotskaya78@gmail.com

Kirill D. Khlomov, PhD in Psychology, Head of the Psychological Service, Senior Researcher, Cognitive Research Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1016-6154, e-mail: khlomov-kd@universitas.ru

Sergey N. Enikolopov, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Head of Department of Clinical Psychology, Mental Health Research Center, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7899-424X, e-mail: enikolopov@mail.ru

Aleksandr G. Efremov, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher, Department of Medical Psychology, Mental Health Research Center (MHRC), Moscow, Russia, e-mail: efremovalexander@mail.ru

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