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 Prevalence and Consequences of Child Victimization
NCJ Number
              184378

Author(s)
          Dean Kilpatrick Ph.D., Benjamin Saunders Ph.D.
Date Published

April 1997
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              4 pages
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              Using telephone interviews with a random sample of 4,023
adolescents and preliminary 10-minute interviews with their
parents or guardians, this study examined the prevalence and
consequences of childhood victimization.
Abstract
              Adolescents were asked about their personal experiences of sexual
assault and physical assault, violence they may have witnessed,
their drug and alcohol use, their experience of posttraumatic
stress disorder, and serious delinquency offenses they may have
committed. The sample was evenly divided between male and female
participants and had demographic characteristics similar to those
of the general population of this age. Extrapolating the findings
of this study to the national adolescent population as a whole
suggests that of the 22.3 million adolescents ages 12-17 in the
United States today, approximately 1.8 million have been victims
of a serious sexual assault, 3.9 million have been victims of a
serious physical assault, and almost 9 million have witnessed
serious violence. Nearly 2 million have suffered (and over 1
million still suffer) from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
and approximately 3.4 million have been drug or alcohol abusers
as well. Analysis of the survey information shows a strong
correlation between drug abuse and delinquency. Having been
personally victimized and suffering from PTSD also are apparently
strong predictors of delinquent behavior.
      
  
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