Polyvictimization and Youth Violence Exposure Across Contexts
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Purpose The current research used latent class analysis to uncover groups of youth with specific victimization profiles and identify factors that are associated with membership in each victimization group.Methods This study used data from National Survey of Children Exposure to Violence II. Random digit dialing and address-based sampling were used to obtain a nationally representative sample of 2,312 youth ages 10-17 years. Phone interviews, averaging 55 minutes in length, were conducted with caregivers to obtain both consent and background information and then with youths themselves.Results Six groups of youth emerged: (1) nonvictims (26.4%), (2) home victims (8.4%), (3) school victims (20.8%), (4) home and school victims (21.3%), (5) community victims (5.4%), and (6) polyvictims (17.8%). Polyvictims were likely to have been victimized in multiple settings by multiple perpetrators and experienced the most serious aggravating characteristics, including incidents involving a weapon, injury, or a sexual component. Youth in the polyvictim class experienced the highest number of different victimizations types in the past year and had the most problematic profile in other ways, including greater likelihood of living in disordered communities, high probabilities of engaging in delinquency of all types, elevated lifetime adversity, low levels of family support, and the highest trauma symptom scores.Conclusions The study supports the contention that a core basis of the particularly damaging effects of polyvictimization is the experience of victimization across multiple domains of the child's life.
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- Authors
- Turner, H. A., Shattuck, A., Finkelhor, D., & Hamby, S.
- Affiliations
- University of New Hampshire (US)
- Sewanee: The University of the South (US)
- Corresponding author
- Turner, Heather A.
- Venue
- Journal of Adolescent Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-02
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 208-214
- ISSN
- 1054-139X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2205007034
- Cited by
- 232
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 21.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Keywords
- polyvictimization, youth violence exposure, school victimization, juvenile delinquency, family support, trauma symptoms
- MeSH terms
- Exposure to Violence, Adolescent, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, Crime Victims, Bullying
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