Background Estimating the prevalence of child maltreatment is challenging due to the
absence of a clear 'gold standard'as to what constitutes maltreatment. This systematic review …

Exposure to childhood adversity can result in negative behavioral and physical health
outcomes due to potential long-term embedding into regulatory biological processes …

We report two studies examining psychometric properties of an expanded measure of
adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that combined the original ACEs items with items …

This study examined a large spectrum of violence, crime, and victimization experiences in a
nationally representative sample of children and youth ages 2 to 17 years. More than one …

Objective To determine prevalence estimates of exposure to trauma and 12-month rates of
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among juvenile detainees by demographic subgroups …

OBJECTIVE:: To assess the utility and performance of the 34-item Juvenile Victimization
Questionnaire (JVQ) in eliciting the recent victimization experiences of a national sample of …

Although a broad range of programmes for prevention of child maltreatment exist, the
effectiveness of most of the programmes is unknown. Two specific home-visiting …

Accurate definitions of phenomena are essential to any scientific enterprise. A definition of
violence should be fully capable of accounting for the exclusion of behaviors such as …

Accurate assessment of bullying is essential to intervention planning and evaluation.
Limitations to many currently available self‐report measures of bullying victimization include …

CV55 March 2004 Page 1 CV55 March 2004 THE JUVENILE VICTIMIZATION
QUESTIONNAIRE (JVQ): ADMINISTRATION AND SCORING MANUAL Sherry L. Hamby (University …