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Longitudinal Study of Violence Against Women: Victimization and Perpetration Among College Students in a State-Supported University in the United States, 1990-1995

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Principal Investigator(s): White, Jacquelyn W.; University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Humphrey, John A.

Summary: The purpose of this study was to investigate longitudinally the developmental antecedents of physical and sexual violence against young women, using a theoretically based multicausal model that included characteristics related to the victim, the perpetrator, and the environment. The researchers used a classic longitudinal design, replicated over two cohorts (those born in 1972 and 1973), each assessed first when 18 years old, and again when 19, 20, 21, and 22 years old. The first survey (... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03212.v1

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