Research conducted over the past decade indicates that a wide range of psychological and
interpersonal problems are more prevalent among those who have been sexually abused …

This review focuses on the apparent connection between childhood sexual or physical
abuse (CSA, CPA) and later substance use problems (SUPs) among adolescents and …

Youth in secure juvenile justice settings (eg, detention, incarceration) often have histories of
complex trauma: exposure to traumatic stressors including polyvictimization, life-threatening …

Gang violence, substance abuse and AIDS have been described as parallel epidemics in
the US inner city. This paper draws upon findings from a set of ethnographic and survey …

The effects of child sexual abuse have become a leading concern of mental health service
providers. Despite an explosion of studies, one major difficulty in this research is the lack of …

Objective.—To clarify the definition of sexual abuse of boys, update estimates of its
prevalence, and explore critically its reported correlates, sequelae, and management. Data …

This article examines the long-term sequelae of childhood sexual abuse in six areas:
posttraumatic stress, cognitive distortions, altered emotionality, disturbed relatedness …

The Handbook of Crime Correlates, Second Edition summarizes more than a century of
worldwide research on traits and social conditions associated with criminality and antisocial …

Using a prospective cohort design, the authors examined in this study whether childhood
victimization increases the risk for illicit drug use and related problems in middle adulthood …

The Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) are intended to measure use of nonviolent discipline,
psychological aggression, and physical assault in parent-child and other family …