The text addresses the incidence, dimensions, nature, correlates, causation, and legal avenues in responding to such victimization. The book is divided into six parts. Part I examines family issues and child victimization that include child abuse, domestic violence, runaways and "throwaways," and missing and abducted children. Part II discusses the sexual exploitation and victimization of children in America, including sexual abuse, incest and child molestation, statutory rape and other sex crimes, child prostitution, and child pornography. Violent crimes against children, such as murder, rape, assault, as well as school crime and violence are explored in Part III. Part IV examines the violent criminal victimization of women, including murder, assault, rape, and battering. In Part IV, chapters consider the violent criminal victimization of women, including murder, assault rape, and battering. This is followed by Part V, which studies the sexual exploitation of women in America, including the prostitution of women, pornography, sexual harassment, and stalking. The concluding section addresses legislative responses to the victimization and exploitation of women and children in the form of new and amended laws, as well as national and local agencies established to prevent victimization and protect victims. 30 tables, 10 figures, chapter notes, a 100-item bibliography, and a subject index