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 following...

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Published inThe journal of research in crime and delinquency Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 71 - 94
Main Authors Siegel, Jane A., Williams, Linda M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications 01.02.2003
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Adolescents
Child Abuse
Child abuse & neglect
Child Sexual Abuse
Childhood Factors
Childhood sexual abuse
Crime
Criminology
Delinquency
Female Offenders
Females
Gender
Girls
Juvenile Delinquency
Offenders
Runaways
Sex crimes
Sexual Abuse
Studies
U.S.A
USA
Victims of Crime
Women
female delinquency
sexual abuse
female crime
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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
1552-731X
DOI:10.1177/0022427802239254