Long-Term Correlates of Child Victimization

• NCJ Number: 89654
• Author(s): P Smith; M Bohnstedt; K Grove
• Date Published: 1982
• Length: 50 pages
• Grant Number(s): 90-C-1870(2)
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Health and Human Services
• Corporate Author: American Justice Institute; California State University, Long Beach
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Prepared for Pacific Sociological Association Conference, April 1982, San Diego, California

Annotation

Reported victims of child abuse are more likely than comparison subjects to come from low socioeconomic status, welfare dependent, and mobile families; to show low academic achievement and poor social adjustment in school; and to become delinquent.

Abstract

This longitudinal study addresses significant methodological gaps in the state-of-the-art literature on child victimization by using a prospective research design and comparison samples matched to 900 victims of earlier child abuse. Victims and comparison subjects are contrasted on social and demographic factors and on several long-term adjustment factors: school adjustment, delinquency, and adult criminality. Implications for intervention strategies are discussed. Tables and about 40 references are included. (Author abstract modified)