The relationship between child sexual abuse and female delinquency and crime: a prospective study
Child sexual abuse has been hypothesized to be an especially significant factor in the etiology of girls' delinquency and women's crime. This article reports on a prospective study of 206 women who, in the period from 1973 to 1975, were treated in a hospital emergency room in a major city...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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Journal of research in crime and delinquency
Year: 2003, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-94 |
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Volltext (doi) |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. IFK: In: Z 31 |
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| Summary: | Child sexual abuse has been hypothesized to be an especially significant factor in the etiology of girls' delinquency and women's crime. This article reports on a prospective study of 206 women who, in the period from 1973 to 1975, were treated in a hospital emergency room in a major city following a report of sexual abuse. Their subsequent juvenile and adult criminal records were compared to a matched comparison group. Child sexual abuse was a statistically significant predictor of certain types of offenses, but other indicators of familial neglect and abuse were significant factors as well |
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| ISSN: | 0022-4278 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022427802239254 |