Rates of sexual assault on women are sufficiently high that women live with a lifelong, pervasive fear of violence. Research has just begun to identify and analyze the health and mental health effects of sexual assault on victims, and studies are investigating the social and individual motivations of perpetrators. This document contains a…

Data from a questionnaire administered in three urban high schools and two state institutions for girls suggest that there is little association between liberated attitudes and self-reported delinquency involvement. However, females' tendency to commit delinquent acts in groups, and their explanations for their participation, depart from…

Many former mental patients see their biggest problem in resuming community life to be their inability to be accepted by other people. The National Institute of Mental Health has worked to remove the stigma associated with mental illness and research has unraveled many of the mysteries about the origins of mental illness. Deinstitutionalization,…