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The Cycle of Violence

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Ten-Year Research Update Review: Child Sexual Abuse

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Posttraumatic stress disorder in abused and neglected children grown up

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Resilience to adult psychopathology following childhood maltreatment: Evidence from a community sample

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The Impact of Childhood Abuse and Neglect on Adult Mental Health: A Prospective Study

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Age of onset of child maltreatment predicts long-term mental health outcomes

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Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology

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Child and Adolescent Abuse and Neglect Research: A Review of the Past 10 Years. Part I: Physical and Emotional Abuse and Neglect

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Childhood victimization and long-term intellectual and academic outcomes

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Antisocial personality disorder in abused and neglected children grown up

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Pediatric primary care to help prevent child maltreatment: the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model

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Long-term effects of child abuse and neglect on emotion processing in adulthood

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Childhood victimization and illicit drug use in middle adulthood.

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Does maltreatment beget maltreatment? A systematic review of the intergenerational literature

Thornberry, T. P., Knight, K. E., & Lovegrove, P. J. (2012) · Trauma, Violence, & Abuse · doi:10.1177/1524838012447697 · Cited by 277

Effects of early life stress on adult male aggression and hypothalamic vasopressin and serotonin.

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Opposite effects of maternal separation on intermale and maternal aggression in C57BL/6 mice: Link to hypothalamic vasopressin and oxytocin immunoreactivity

Veenema, A. H., Bredewold, R., & Neumann, I. D. (2007) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.02.008 · Cited by 263

The effects of early life stress on the epigenome: From the womb to adulthood and even before

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Cycle of child sexual abuse: Links between being a victim and becoming a perpetrator

Glasser, M., Kolvin, I., Campbell, D., Glasser, A., Leitch, I., & Farrelly, S. (2001) · British Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1192/bjp.179.6.482 · Cited by 255

Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Prisoners

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Does adult attachment style mediate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and mental and physical health outcomes

Widom, C. S., Czaja, S. J., Kozakowski, S. S., & Chauhan, P. (2018) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.05.002 · Cited by 235

Intergenerational continuity of child physical abuse: how good is the evidence?

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A Meta-Analysis of the Predictors of Delinquency Among Girls

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An examination of risky sexual behavior and HIV in victims of child abuse and neglect: A 30-year follow-up.

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Defining maltreatment chronicity: Are there differences in child outcomes?

English, D. J., Graham, J. C., Litrownik, A. J., Everson, M., & Bangdiwala, S. I. (2005) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2004.08.009 · Cited by 212

Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and unemployment among adults from five US states

Liu, Y., Croft, J. B., Chapman, D. P., Perry, G. S., Greenlund, K. J., Zhao, G., & Edwards, V. J. (2013) · Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · doi:10.1007/s00127-012-0554-1 · Cited by 200

Maternal separation interferes with developmental changes in brain vasopressin and oxytocin receptor binding in male rats

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The advantage of social living: Brain neuropeptides mediate the beneficial consequences of sex and motherhood

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Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Psychiatric Diagnoses and Treatment in a Sample of Serious Juvenile Offenders

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Does child abuse and neglect increase risk for perpetration of violence inside and outside the home?

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Intergenerational Continuities and Discontinuities in Intimate Partner Violence: A Two-Generational Prospective Study

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Impact of a maternal history of childhood abuse on the development of mother-infant interaction during the first year of life

Fuchs, A., Möhler, E., Resch, F., & Kaess, M. (2015) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.05.023 · Cited by 103

A Prospective Examination of Whether Childhood Sexual Abuse Predicts Subsequent Sexual Offending

Widom, C. S., & Massey, C. (2015) · JAMA Pediatrics · doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.3357 · Cited by 93

From Childhood Maltreatment to Allostatic Load in Adulthood: The Role of Social Support

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The association between childhood maltreatment experiences and the onset of maltreatment perpetration in young adulthood controlling for proximal and distal risk factors

Ben-David, V., Jonson-Reid, M., Drake, B., & Kohl, P. L. (2015) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.01.013 · Cited by 64

Childhood sexual abuse and pervasive problems across multiple life domains: Findings from a five-decade study

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Do the Long-Term Consequences of Neglect Differ for Children of Different Races and Ethnic Backgrounds?

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The Cycle of Violence: Examining the Impact of Maltreatment Early in Life on Adult Offending

Reckdenwald, A., Mancini, C., & Beauregard, E. (2013) · Violence and Victims · doi:10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-12-00054 · Cited by 47

Childhood maltreatment and violence: Mediation through psychiatric morbidity

González, R. A., Kallis, C., Ullrich, S., Barnicot, K., Keers, R., & Coid, J. W. (2016) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.01.002 · Cited by 41

Romantic functioning mediates prospective associations between childhood abuse and neglect and parenting outcomes in adulthood

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Reading for life and adolescent re-arrest: Evaluating a unique juvenile diversion program

Seroczynski, A. D., Evans, W. N., Jobst, A. D., Horvath, L., & Carozza, G. (2016) · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · doi:10.1002/pam.21916 · Cited by 24

A prospective look at substance use and criminal behavior in urban ADHD youth: what is the role of maltreatment history on outcome?

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Comparative mRNA analysis of behavioral and genetic mouse models of aggression

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