Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 71-94 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2003 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Social Psychology
Keywords
- Female crime
- Female delinquency
- Sexual abuse