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Poly-Victimization Among Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: Manifestations & Associations to Delinquency
Poly-Victimization Among Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: Manifestations & Associations to Delinquency
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Dec. 14, 2009
ANNOTATION: The poli-victimization, the simultaneous experience of several different types of victimization in separate incidents, of juvenile girls is examined. Results are presented for: participants; girls’ experiences of victimization and adversity; girls’ crime and delinquency; and association of victimization and adversity to crime and delinquency. “Of the five major categories of victimization [caregiver, gang, dating, sexual, and witnessing], witnessing violence demonstrated the most consistent associations with other types of violence and gang attacks showed the least consistent associations” (p. iv).
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