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Child Abuse, Neglect, and Violent Criminal Behavior in a Midwest Metropolitan Area of the United States, 1967-1988

(10 datasets; 1,773 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Widom, Cathy Spatz

Summary: These data examine the relationships between childhood abuse and/or neglect and later criminal and violent criminal behavior. In particular, the data focus on whether being a victim of violence and/or neglect in early childhood leads to being a criminal offender in adolescence or early adulthood and whether a relationship exists between childhood abuse or neglect and arrests as a juvenile, arrests as an adult, and arrests for violent offenses. For this data collection, adult and ju... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09480.v1

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