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Ahrens, Kym R.; Katon, Wayne; McCarty, Carolyn; Richardson, Laura P.; Courtney, Mark E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Purpose: To evaluate the association between history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and having transactional sex among adolescents who have been in foster care. Methods: We used an existing dataset of youth transitioning out of foster care. Independent CSA variables included self report of history of sexual molestation and rape when participants…
Descriptors: Age, Rape, Children, Foster Care
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Testa, Maria; Hoffman, Joseph H.; Livingston, Jennifer A. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objectives: Previous research suggests that women's early sexual victimization experiences may influence their parenting behaviors and increase the vulnerability of their children to being sexually victimized. The current study considered whether mother's sexual victimization experiences, in childhood and after age 14, were associated with the…
Descriptors: Rape, Mothers, Daughters, Graduation
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Hensley, Christopher; Tallichet, Suzanne E.; Dutkiewicz, Erik L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
Although bestiality is an infrequent form of animal cruelty, the possibility of identifying a potential link between these acts and later interpersonal violence is an area of research that deserves further exploration. In a replication of the Hensley, Tallichet, and Singer study and based on survey data from male inmates at a medium- and…
Descriptors: Violence, Correctional Institutions, Children, Institutionalized Persons
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Schultz, LeRoy G. – Child Welfare, 1979
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Bibliographies, Child Abuse, Child Welfare
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Judiciary. – 1977
These House hearings deal with a number of similar bills prohibiting the sexual exploitation of children and the transporting in interstate and foreign commerce of photographs of film depicting such exploitation. These practices, including physical sexual abuse of children of both sexes and all ages, are seen to be proliferating. The hearings…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Crime, Federal Legislation
Finkelhor, David – 1978
Survey information shows that sexual abuse of children is widespread, being reported by 19% of the females and 9% of the males in the sample. Most sexual victimization took place within the child's family, not with strangers, as "child molesters" have traditionally been stereotyped. While the problem cuts across social and economic lines, it seems…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Children, Family Problems
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Leonard, Elizabeth D. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1996
Social exchange framework is applied to Summit's Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, which describes a common pattern of interaction and response among child victims of sexual abuse, their caretakers, and adult offenders. Analysis of the syndrome demonstrates the applicability of the exchange perspective for this aspect of child sexual…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Abuse, Children, Crime
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Heriot, Jessica – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1996
Discusses the proportion of mothers who act protectively following disclosure of child sexual abuse and what factors are associated with maternal nonprotectiveness. In a sample of 118 cases of intrafamilial child sexual abuse it was found that 57% of mothers separated from the perpetrators, two-thirds were supportive of their children, and 52% did…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Crime, Incest
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Riggs, Richard S. – Journal of School Health, 1982
The responsibilities of school personnel in detecting and dealing with incest are discussed: (1) knowledge about incestuous behavior; (2) observation and detection; (3) reporting and referrals; (4) counseling and followup; and (5) prevention. (FG)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Children
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Surratt, Hilary L.; Inciardi, James A.; Kurtz, Steven P.; Kiley, Marion C. – Crime & Delinquency, 2004
This article examines the subculture of violence thesis as it relates to female street sex workers in Miami. Interview and focus group methods were used to study the intersections of childhood trauma, drug use, and violent victimization among 325 women. Using targeted sampling, crack- and heroin-using sex workers were recruited through street…
Descriptors: Violence, Focus Groups, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Drug Use