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Yes! Kissing Too… The Child Would Not Be Hurt in Any Way: Social Constructions of Child Sexual Abuse in the Ga Community in Ghana

Markwei, U. (Qualitative Sociology Review, 2019)

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child obligates nations to protect children from all forms of abuse including sexual. However, child sexual abuse is a complex phenomenon which is difficult to understand ...

Yokohama. World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. 2001.

Unknown author (2001)

" You can trust me…" Young people going missing and at risk of, or abused through, child sexual exploitation in North Wales

Hughes, C., & Thomas, M. (2016)

This research aims to improve understanding of the nature of the relationship between going missing and CSE, and to improve responses to children and young people at risk. Although this issue has been considered at a UK ...

"You didn't take Lucy's skirt off": The effect of misleading information on omissions and commissions in children's memory reports

Otgaar, H., Candel, I., Smeets, T., & Merckelbach, H. (Legal and Criminological Psychology, 2010)

The current study explored how misleading information affects children’s omissions and commissions over time. Fifty-nine younger children were instructed to remove three pieces of clothing from a puppet. Half of them were ...

You Learn What You Live: Prevalence of Childhood Adversity in the Lives of Juveniles Arrested for Sexual Offenses

Levenson, J. S., Baglivio, M., Wolff, K. T., Epps, N., Gomez, K. C., & Kaplan, D. (Advances in Social Work, 2017)

Social workers often find themselves working with children or adolescents who have been victims of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including youths who have ended up in the juvenile justice system. Childhood trauma ...

You're Not Alone-The Journey from Abduction to Empowerment

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2016)

E-book provides case studies of abduction victims during their period of recovery.

Young Adults Victimized as Children or Adolescents: Relationships Between Perpetrator Patterns, Poly-Victimization, and Mental Health Problems

Kallstrom, Asa ; Hellfeldt, Karin ; Howell, Kathryn H. ; Miller-Graff, Laura E. ; Graham-Bermann, Sandra A. (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2017)

Child and adolescent victims of violence are often exposed to more than one kind of physical, sexual, or emotional maltreatment. Both individually and cumulatively, such victimizations have significant ramifications on ...

Young children exposed to intimate partner violence describe their abused parent: A qualitative study

Pernebo, K., & Almqvist, K. (Journal of Family Violence, 2017)

The negative impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) begins early in the child’s relationship with a caregiver. Children’s relationships with, and internal working models of, abused parents have rarely been documented. ...

Young Children Living with Domestic Violence: The Role of Early Childhood Programs

Cohen, E. & Knitzer, J. (2004)

Young children's adjustment as a function of maltreatment, shame, and anger.

Bennett, D. S., Sullivan, M. W., & Lewis, M. (Child Maltreatment, 2005)

Maltreated children are at increased risk for behavior problems. This study examines a model in which shame mediates the potential relation between maltreatment and anger, and anger mediates the potential relation between ...

Young children’s competency to take the oath: Effects of task, maltreatment, and age

Lyon, T. D., Carrick, N., & Quas, J. A. (Law and Human Behavior, 2010)

This study examined maltreated and non-maltreated children’s (N = 183) emerging understanding of “truth” and “lie,” terms about which they are quizzed to qualify as competent to testify. Four- to six-year-old children were ...

Young children’s competency to take the oath: Effects of task, maltreatment, and age

Lyon, T., Carrick, N., & Quas, J. A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

This study examined maltreated and non-maltreated children’s (N = 183) emerging understanding of ‘‘truth’’ and ‘‘lie,’’ terms about which they are quizzed to qualify as competent to testify. Four- to six-year-old children ...

'Young people who engage in child sexual exploitation behaviours : an exploratory study.', Project Report.

Hackett, S. and Smith, S. (Centre for Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, 2018)

Despite increasing awareness of child sexual exploitation (CSE) across the UK in recent years, there remain gaps in current knowledge and understanding – including in relation to young people who perpetrate acts of ...

Younger and Older Adults’ Lie-Detection and Credibility Judgments of Children’s Coached Reports

O’Connor, A. M., Lyon, T. D., & Evans, A. D. (Psychology, Crime, & Law, 2019)

Previous research has examined young and middle-aged adults’ perceptions of child witnesses; however, no research to date has examined how potential older adult jurors may perceive a child witness. The present investigation ...

Youngest Victims of Opioid epidemic-Law Enforcement Role in the response

TASC’s Center for Health and Justice National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (TASC’s Center for Health and Justice, 2021)

presentation

Youth at Risk, Social Exclusion, & Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics: A New Survey (Brazil)

Verner, D., & Alda, E. (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2013)

Youth Characteristics Associated With Sexual Violence Perpetration Among Transgender Boys and Girls, Cisgender Boys and Girls, and Nonbinary Youth

Ybarra, M. L., Goodman, K. L., Saewyc, E., Scheer, J. R., & Stroem, I. F. (JAMA network open, 2022)

Importance Gender minority adults experience higher rates of sexual violence (SV) than cisgender adults. How this disparity extends to youths, including perpetration rates, is unknown. Objective To compare rates of ...

Youth exposed to violence: Stability, co-occurrence, and context.

Margolin, G., Vickerman, K. A., Ramos, M. C., Serrano, S. D., Gordis, E. B., Iturralde, E., ... & Spies, L. A. (Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2009)

With considerable literature establishing how separate types of violence disrupt the lives of children, there is emerging interest in examining violence across multiple interpersonal domains. This paper examines four ...

Youth Exposure to Suicide Attempts: Relative Impact on Personal Trauma Symptoms

Mitchell, K. J., Turner, H. A., & Jones, L. M. (American journal of preventive medicine, 2019)

The purpose of this study is to report the prevalence of youth lifetime exposure to suicide attempts by people close to them, and its association with personal nonvictimization adversities, suicidal ideation, thoughts of ...

Youth exposure to violence prevention programs in a national sample

Finkelhor, D., Vanderminden, J., Turner, H., Shattuck, A., & Hamby, S. (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2014)

This paper assesses how many children and youth have had exposure to programs aimed at preventing various kinds of violence perpetration and victimization. Based on a national sample of children 5–17, 65% had ever been ...

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