NCJ Number
237892
Date Published
December 2010
Length
19 pages
Annotation
This study examined physical and sexual revictimization in a random sample of incarcerated and poor, urban, nonincarcerated women.
Abstract
This study examines physical and sexual revictimization in a random sample of incarcerated and poor, urban, nonincarcerated women using multiple measures of physical and sexual child abuse. Researchers used hierarchical logistic regression to compare rates of revictimization and the strength of the association between child abuse and adult victimization using two measures of child physical abuse and four measures of child sexual abuse. Incarcerated women had higher rates of revictimization than did nonincarcerated women. Child abuse and adult incarceration were directly associated with adult victimization; interactions between child abuse and incarceration were associated with adult victimization for only a few definitions of child abuse. Findings suggest that the relationship between child abuse and adult victimization is robust and that factors in incarcerated women’s lives further increase the probability of adult victimization. (Published Abstract)
Date Published: December 1, 2010
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