This report found that being abused or neglected as a child increased the likelihood of juvenile arrest by 59%, adult arrest by 28%, and for a violent crime by 30%. An Update on the Cycle of Violence [1]
Links:[1] http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/184894.pdf [2] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/research [3] http://www.nsvrc.org/publications/reports