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 Thirty-year Follow-up of the Cycle of Violence
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              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College
Award #
              2011-WG-BX-0013
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    New York, NY
Congressional District
              10
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2011
Total funding (to date)
              $467,587
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2011, $311,967)
The purpose of this basic research project is to conduct a 30 year follow-up of criminal histories for the large sample of abused and/or neglected children and matched controls that were part of an original NIJ-funded study in an attempt to further understand the life-course of criminal behavior in these individuals who have now reached middle adulthood. Criminal history information (arrests) for these individuals was last collected in 1994 when these people were approximately 32 years old. In 2012, the mean age of the sample will be 49.1 (SD = 3.6). There are four major goals: (1) To determine whether individuals with documented histories of child abuse and/or neglect are more likely to be arrested for partner (or domestic) violence, compared to matched controls; (2) To determine whether individuals with histories of child abuse and/or neglect are more likely to be arrested for crimes against children (e.g., physical abuse, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment, and threats of physical harm), compared to matched controls; (3)To determine whether individuals with documented histories of childhood sexual abuse are more likely to be arrested for sex crimes when followed up into middle adulthood, compared to matched controls; and (4) To determine whether individuals with documented histories of child abuse and/or neglect are more likely to offend, and to continue offending, in adulthood, compared to matched controls. This research project utilizes a cohort design in which 908 physically and sexually abused and neglected children (ages 0-11 between 1967 and 1971, males and females, 2/3 White, 1/3 African American) were matched with 667 non-abused and non neglected children and followed prospectively. The current study will conduct a criminal history search using the FBI National Crime Information Service to obtain arrest and conviction data on partner
violence and child abuse and will obtain information on sex offenses from public sex offender websites. This study's findings will have clear implications for developing programs to break the cycle of violence based on empirical evidence and will be used by policy makers and economists to calculate long-term costs associated with the consequences of childhood maltreatment.
ca/ncf
Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2014, $155,620)
The purpose of this research is conduct a 30-year follow-up of criminal histories for the large sample of abused and/or neglected children (N = 908) and matched controls (N = 667) in the original NIJ-funded study who have now reached middle adulthood (in 2013, the mean age of the sample was 51). There are four major goals: (1) To determine whether individuals with documented histories of child abuse and/or neglect are more likely to be arrested for partner (or domestic) violence, compared to matched controls; (2) To determine whether individuals with histories of child abuse and/or neglect are more likely to be arrested for crimes against children, compared to matched controls; (3) To determine whether individuals with documented histories of childhood sexual abuse are more likely to be arrested for sex crimes when followed up into middle adulthood, compared to matched controls; and (4) To determine whether individuals with documented histories of child abuse and/or neglect are more likely to offend, and to continue offending, in middle adulthood,compared to matched controls. This research is based on a prospective cohort design study in which physically and sexually abused and neglected children (ages 0-11) were matched with non-abused and non-neglected children and followed into adulthood. Approximately half the sample is female (51%) and 66% White, non-Hispanic. An updated criminal history search at federal and state levels and a search of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website has been conducted for ail individuals in the sample. Statistical analyses will include chi squares, analyses of variance, and logistic, ordinary least square, and Poisson regressions. Products will include a data set, interim and final reports, numerous manuscripts submitted for publication in scholarly journals, and short research "briefs". This project is a supplement to the original project (#2011-WG-BX-0013), entitled "Thirty Year Follow up to the Cycle of Violence." ca/ncf


  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Associations Between Objective and Subjective Experiences of Childhood Maltreatment and the Course of Emotional Disorders in Adulthood
                  Child Maltreatment and Psychiatric Disorders Increase Risk for Stalking Victimization
                  Childhood Maltreatment and Midlife Cognitive Functioning: A Longitudinal Study of the Roles of Social Support and Social Isolation
                  Childhood maltreatment and cognitive functioning in middle adulthood
                  Out-of-home placement, sleep problems, and later mental health and crime: A prospective investigation
                  The Cycle of Violence: Abused and Neglected Girls to Adult Female Offenders
                  Childhood maltreatment and lead levels in middle adulthood: A prospective examination of the roles of individual socio-economic and neighborhood characteristics
                  The role of psychiatric symptoms and environmental vulnerability factors in explaining the relationship between child maltreatment and suicidality: A prospective investigation
                  Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology
                  Higher Levels of Intelligence and Executive Functioning Protect Maltreated Children Against Adult Arrests: A Prospective Study
                  Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Maltreated Children Grown Up: The Influence of Neighborhood.
                  Prospective Examination of Whether Childhood Sexual Abuse Predicts Subsequent Sexual Offending

  
Date Created: September 15, 2011
    
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