Re-Victimization Patterns in a National Longitudinal Sample of Children and Youth

Autor/inn/en	Finkelhor, David; Ormrod, Richard K.; Turner, Heather A.
Titel	Re-Victimization Patterns in a National Longitudinal Sample of Children and Youth
Quelle	In: Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 31 (2007) 5, S.479-502 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-2134
DOI	10.1016/j.chiabu.2006.03.012
Schlagwörter	Victims of Crime; Prevention; Family Problems; Sibling Relationship; At Risk Persons; Alcohol Abuse; Child Abuse; Longitudinal Studies; Children; Adolescents; Peer Relationship; Sexual Abuse; Aggression; Personality Traits; Friendship; Family Violence; Unemployment; Institutionalized Persons; Correctional Institutions + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Familienkrise; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Risikogruppe; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Peer-Beziehungen; Sexueller Missbrauch; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Freundschaft; Arbeitslosigkeit; Jugendstrafvollzug
Abstract	Objective: To understand to the degree to which a broad variety of victimizations, including child maltreatment, conventional crime, peer, and sexual victimizations, persist for children from 1 year to the next. Design: A national sample of 1467 children aged 2-17 recruited through random digit dialing and assessed via telephone interviews (with caretakers and youth themselves) about a comprehensive range of victimization experiences in the previous year, and then re-assessed (72.3% of baseline sample) after a 1-year interval. Results: The risk for re-victimization in Year 2 was high for children victimized in Year 1, with risk ratios ranging from 2.2 for physical assault to 6.9 for sexual victimization. Victimization of any one type left substantial vulnerability even for different types of subsequent re-victimization (e.g., property crime victimization was associated with higher risk of sexual victimization the next year). Children with four or more types of victimization in Year 1 ("poly-victims") were at particularly high risk of persisting poly-victimization. Persisting poly-victimization was more likely for children who scored high on anger/aggression and who had recent life adversities. Desistence from poly-victimization was associated with having more good friends. Onset of poly-victimization in Year 2, in contrast to persistence from Year 1, was associated with violent or maltreating families, family problems such as alcohol abuse, imprisonment, unemployment and family disruption. Having more older siblings acted as both a risk factor and a protective factor for different groups of youth. Conclusion: Children previously victimized in 1 year are at higher risk of continued victimization, and the poly-victims are at particular risk. These findings suggest the potential merit of identifying these high-risk children and making them priority targets for prevention efforts. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10