Early Physical Abuse and Later Violent Delinquency: A Prospective Longitudinal Study
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In this prospective longitudinal study of 574 children followed from age 5 to age 21, the authors examine the links between early physical abuse and violent delinquency and other socially relevant outcomes during late adolescence or early adulthood and the extent to which the child's race and gender moderate these links. Analyses of covariance indicated that individuals who had been physically abused in the first 5 years of life were at greater risk for being arrested as juveniles for violent, nonviolent, and status offenses. Moreover, physically abused youth were less likely to have graduated from high school and more likely to have been fired in the past year, to have been a teen parent, and to have been pregnant or impregnated someone in the past year while not married. These effects were more pronounced for African American than for European American youth and somewhat more pronounced for females than for males.
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CPA may confer greater risk for arrest among African Americans relative to their White counterparts.
“For example, CPA may confer greater risk for arrest among African Americans relative to their White counterparts (Lansford et al., 2007; Widom et al., 2013).”
From Childhood Physical Abuse and Antisocial Traits: Mediating Role of Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Clusters (2022) · cites this paper as Lansford et al., 2007
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- Authors
- Lansford, J. E., Miller-Johnson, S., Berlin, L. J., Dodge, K. A., Bates, J. E., & Pettit, G. S.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Duke University
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Auburn University (US)
- Venue
- Child Maltreatment
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-08
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 233-245
- ISSN
- 1077-5595 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6119
- PMC
- PMC2771618
- OpenAlex
- W2101458202
- Cited by
- 523
- References
- 68
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- FWCI
- 18.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Child Maltreatment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH57024, R01MH057024, MH56961, R01MH057095, R01MH056961, MH57095, R01MH042498)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA016903, K05DA015226)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD030572)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- physical abuse, violent offending, juvenile arrests, status offenses, high school graduation, teen parenthood, adolescent pregnancy, employment, racial differences, gender differences, early childhood abuse, adolescence, early adulthood
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aggression, Child, Child Abuse, Child, Preschool, Crime, Female, Humans, Indiana, Juvenile Delinquency, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Statistics as Topic, Tennessee, Violence, Models, Statistical
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