Children as victims of violence: A national survey
| dc.creator | Finkelhor, D., & Dziuba-Leatherman, J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-19T16:25:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-19T16:25:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1994 | |
| dc.description | The goal of this study was to gain a more comprehensive perspective on the scope, variety, and consequences of child victimization, which has been obscured by a fragmentation into specific problems like sexual abuse or kidnapping. Two thousand children aged 10 to 16 years were interviewed in a national telephone survey of children. In the previous year, a quarter of the children had experienced a completed victimization, one in eight had experienced an injury, and one in a hundred required medical attention as a result. Nonfamily physical assaults were the most numerous. Contact sexual abuse occurred to 3.2% of girls and 0.6% of boys. There were also substantial numbers of incidents of attempted kidnappings and violence directed to children's genitals. The victimization of children occurs to a greater extent than has been previously reported and is poorly represented in official statistics. The authors argue for a more comprehensive interest in children's victimization including better national statistics about the problem. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11212/147 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/CV4.pdf | |
| dc.publisher | Pediatrics | |
| dc.subject | Abuse-sexual | |
| dc.subject | Best Practices-Research | |
| dc.subject | Child welfare -- statistics | |
| dc.subject | Physical abuse | |
| dc.title | Children as victims of violence: A national survey | |
| dc.type | Text |