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  4. Child Abuse: Risk Factors and Possible Indicators

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  6. The Abused/Abuser Hypothesis of Child Sexual Abuse: A Critical Review

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  1. The Abused/Abuser Hypothesis of Child Sexual Abuse: A ...

    A widespread belief among the general public and professionals alike is that "sexual abuse causes sexual abuse" (Finkelhor et al., 1986; Kempe and Kempe, 1984; Lanyon, 1986). That is, sexually abused children and adolescents who have engaged in sexual...

  2. Testing the Cycle of Violence Hypothesis: Child Abuse and Adolescent

    Child abuse and adolescent dating violence are common in this study population and are highly predictive of IPV. In regression models stratified by gender, child abuse and adolescent dating violence are significant predictors of IPV victimization and perpetration for both men and women, but the magnitude of these associations differs by gender.

  3. (PDF) Theories of child abuse

    Social learning theory, as applied to the intergenerational transmission hypothesis, ... Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974, Pub. L. No. 93-247 (1974).

  4. Developmental trajectories of abuse--an hypothesis for the effects of

    Child abuse strongly predicts negative life outcomes, especially in areas of emotional and mental health. ... as a function of the individual's own experiences with abuse during childhood. If this hypothesis is supported with future research, more targeted, successful, and cost-effective prevention and treatment protocols could ensue. For ...

  5. Psychobiological Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Current

    This evidence is merely preliminary support for this hypothesis, necessitating further studies to understand the mechanisms that link CSA and adult obesity. ... Child Abuse Negl. 84 131-145. 10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.07.037 [Google Scholar] Atabay E., Arman A. R. (2019). Oxidative stress in children with sexual abuse may be elevated and correlate ...

  6. Child abuse, self-control, and delinquency: A general strain

    Child abuse was also associated with lower self-control, supporting our second hypothesis. The claim that victimization leads to low self-control has received little attention in the literature, and the extant research provides mixed evidence for this assertion ( Agnew et al., 2011 , Monahan et al., 2015 , Sullivan et al., 2007 ).

  7. The Effects of Child Abuse and Exposure to Domestic Violence on

    Introduction. Every year an estimated 3.3 million to 10 million children are exposed to domestic violence in their home (Carlson, 1984; Straus, 1992).Studies investigating the prevalence of child abuse find that almost 900,000 children are classified as maltreated by parents and other caretakers (United States Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2006).

  8. Childhood Abuse and Criminal Behavior: Testing a General Strain Theory

    This article draws on general strain theory (GST) to develop and test a model of the childhood abuse-crime relationship. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1 we find that early childhood physical and sexual abuse are robust predictors of offending in adolescence, for the full sample and in equations disaggregated by gender.

  9. Testing the cycle of violence hypothesis: Child abuse and adolescent

    Child abuse is an important determinant of future violence perpetration and victimization. Past research examining linkages between child abuse and adult intimate partner violence (IPV) has predominantly focused on married individuals and not considered adolescent dating violence. In the present study, data from three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are used to ...

  10. [PDF] Testing the cycle of violence hypothesis: child abuse and

    Child abuse is an important determinant of future violence perpetration and victimization. Past research examining linkages between child abuse and adult intimate partner violence (IPV) has predominantly focused on married individuals and not considered adolescent dating violence. In the present study, data from three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are used to ...

  11. Child Abuse and Neglect, Social Support, and Psychopathology in

    Hypothesis I After accounting for age, race, and sex, maltreated children, compared to matched controls, will have lower levels of social support in middle adulthood. ... Child abuse, neglect, and adult behavior: Research design and findings on criminality, violence, and child abuse. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 1989a; 59:355-367 ...

  12. Testing the Cycle of Violence Hypothesis: Child Abuse and Adolescent

    Related to previously mentioned empirical findings and theoretical assumptions is the cycle of violence hypothesis that suggests that children who experience abuse are more likely to experience ...

  13. Understanding and Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect

    The Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act defines child abuse and neglect or child maltreatment as:. Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.

  14. PDF Alternative Hypotheses in the Child Forensic Interview: What Are We

    allegations of child abuse. They engage in the case at an entirely different point in the process (post-investigation or at least well after the initial investigative response) and may be retained by ... on the absence of hypothesis testing during the interview, with an additional implication that the ...

  15. Exploring the controversy in child abuse pediatrics and false

    The child abuse pediatrician became the linchpin in a successful child abuse prosecution; in so doing they took on the conflicting roles of health care provider, investigator, medical expert, accuser, key prosecution witness, promoter of the prime hypothesis, and defender of their own past medical decision making regarding abuse.

  16. CHILD ABUSE: VARIABLES TO CONSIDER IN THE ELABORATION OF ...

    Hypothesis: Features of child abuse are function of the mothers' age, and of the children's age. Material and methods: The analysed sample consists of 39 families attended at the Family violence ...

  17. MHAMic

    "The abused/abuser hypothesis of child sexual abuse: A critical review of theory and research," in Feierman, J. (ed.), Pedophilia: Biosocial Dimensions, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990, pp. 488-509. ... Many children experience arousal and orgasm with other children but do not have sex with children when they reach adulthood.

  18. [PDF] The Abused/Abuser Hypothesis of Child Sexual Abuse: A Critical

    A widespread belief among the general public and professionals alike is that "sexual abuse causes sexual abuse" (Finkelhor et al., 1986; Kempe and Kempe, 1984; Lanyon, 1986). That is, sexually abused children and adolescents who have engaged in sexual behavior with an adult (or a significantly older adolescent) are commonly thought to be at risk in later years of themselves becoming ...

  19. Testing the sexually abused-sexual abuser hypothesis: A prospective

    The sexually abused-sexual abuser hypothesis posits that persons, especially males, who are sexually abused as children are at particular risk of sexually abusing others later in life. We tested this hypothesis by prospectively examining associations between maltreatment and offending in a birth cohort of 38,282 males with a maltreatment ...

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    Child abuse is an important determinant of future violence perpetration and victimization. Past research examining linkages between child abuse and adult intimate partner violence (IPV) has predominantly focused on married individuals and not considered adolescent dating violence. In the present study, data from three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are used to ...

  21. Testing the sexually abused-sexual abuser hypothesis: A prospective

    Introduction. The sexually abused-sexual abuser hypothesis posits that persons, especially males, who are sexually abused as children are at particular risk of sexually abusing others later in life (Garland and Dougher, 1990, Glasser et al., 2001, Lanyon, 1986).Evidence supporting this hypothesized link between sexual victimization and sexually abusive behavior has been reported in both ...

  22. Step One: Hypothesise

    The word hypothesis has its origins in ancient Greek and means 'a proposed explanation for a phenomenon' (Wikipedia - online dictionary). In modern day usage, a hypothesis is a provisional idea or explanation which has to be evaluated or tested. ... Where hypotheses relate to actual or likely abuse of a child, the child protection procedures ...