Authors
Jane A Siegel, Linda M Williams
Publication date
2003/2/1
Journal
Journal of research in Crime and Delinquency
Volume
40
Issue
1
Pages
71-94
Publisher
Sage Publications
Description
Child sexual abuse has been hypothesized to be an especially significant factor in the etiology of girls’ delinquency and women’s crime. This article reports on a prospective study of 206 women who, in the period from 1973 to 1975, were treated in a hospital emergency room in a major city following a report of sexual abuse. Their subsequent juvenile and adult criminal records were compared to a matched comparison group. Child sexual abuse was a statistically significant predictor of certain types of offenses, but other indicators of familial neglect and abuse were significant factors as well.
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JA Siegel, LM Williams - Journal of research in Crime and Delinquency, 2003