The article begins with a discussion of several issues that are important when considering research on the association between home and school violence: the difficulty of defining child abuse and school violence unambiguously, problems with making causal links between child abuse and subsequent school violence, limitations imposed by samples available to researchers of child abuse, and the difficulty of distinguishing effects of child abuse from other family characteristics when examining children's aggressive behavior. Research is then reviewed regarding connections between school violence and physical abuse, child sexual abuse, and witnessing violence in the home. Explanations for the association between home and school violence are offered that focus on neurological factors, learning and social learning, the attachment perspective, and social development. 55 notes