| Title: |
Childhood Victimization, Running Away and Delinquency
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| Journal: |
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Vol.36 Issue 4 Dated November 1999 Pages 347 To 370
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| Author: |
Jeanne G Kaufman; Cathy S Widom
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| Sponsor: |
US Dept of Justice National Institute of Justice
US Dept of Justice
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
US Dept of Health and Human
National Institute of Mental Health Services
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| URL: |
http://www.sagepub.com
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Publication
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11/1999
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| Pages: |
24
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| Type: |
Studies/research reports
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Use this class code for individual journal articles, reprints of journal articles, complete article
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| Origin: |
United States
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| Language: |
English
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| Grant No.: |
86-IJ-CX-0033; 89-IJ-CX-0007; 93-IJ-CX-0031; 7-5502-NY-JN
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| Annotation: |
This study examines the interrelationship among childhood victimization, running away and delinquency, and whether running away serves to mediate or moderate this relationship.
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| Abstract: |
Data are from a prospective cohorts design study in which documented cases of childhood abuse and neglect were compared to matched controls and followed-up and interviewed between 1989 and 1995. Being abused or neglected in childhood increased the likelihood that a youth would run away from home, both childhood victimization and running away increased the risk of juvenile arrest and chronic runaways were at greater risk of arrest as juveniles. Furthermore, running away did not mediate the relationship between childhood victimization and delinquency, because running away increased the risk of juvenile arrest for both childhood victims and non-victims. The effect of running away was stronger for non-abused and non-neglected youths than for abused and neglected children. Figures, tables, notes, references
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| Main Terms: |
Juveniles
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| Index Terms: |
Juvenile delinquency factors; Child abuse; Victimization; Runaways; Cohort studies; Child abuse as delinquency factor; Juvenile arrest statistics; Delinquent-nondelinquent comparisons; Abused-nonabused child comparisons
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