Unsafe at Any Age Linking Childhood and Adolescent Maltreatment to Delinquency and Crime

• Published in: The journal of research in crime and delinquency Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 295 - 318
• Main Authors: Mersky, Joshua P., Topitzes, James, Reynolds, Arthur J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.05.2012; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adolescence; Adolescent Development; Adolescents; Age; Chicago, Illinois; Child Abuse; Child abuse & neglect; Child Development; Childhood; Children; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Crime; Crime Rates; Criminology; Delinquency; Determinants; Disadvantaged Youth; Drug Abuse; Illinois; Intervention; Juvenile delinquency; Longitudinal Studies; Maladjusted; Minority Groups; Offenders; Prevention; Research methods; Risk; Risk assessment; Teenagers; Theories; victimization; Victims; Victims of Crime; Violence; Violent crime; Illinois; United States > US; Chicago Illinois; USA, Illinois, Chicago; research methods; criminological theory; juvenile delinquency; life course theory; causes/correlates; crime; quantitative research; developmental theories

Objectives. This study compares the effects of childhood maltreatment and adolescent maltreatment on delinquency and crime, including violent and nonviolent offending. Methods. Data were derived from the Chicago Longitudinal Study, a prospective investigation of 1,539 underprivileged, minority subje...