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Published on: September 19, 2019
Correlates of male and female juvenile offender abuse experiences
Richard Dembo1, James Schmeidler, Kristina Childs
1Department of Criminology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. rdembo@cas.usf.edu
Abstract:
This paper reports the results of developing and evaluating a classification of 315 arrested youth processed at the Hillsborough County Juvenile Assessment Center from September 1, 1994 to January 31, 1998. Youth were characterized as physically or sexually abused if they reported abuse or if they had been referred to juvenile court for abuse. Stepwise logistic regression analysis revealed that family problems, friends' substance use, and delinquency involvement (marginally significantly related) were associated with both physical abuse and sexual victimization. In addition, physical abuse was associated with psychological problems and sexual victimization with being female, being older, and own substance use. The research implications of these results are discussed.
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