Victim and Crime Factors Associated With the Development of Crime-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• NCJ Number: 130797
• Author(s): A Amick-McMullan, C L Best, D G Kilpatrick, H S Resnick, B E Saunders, L J Veronen
• Date Published: January 1989
• Length: 16 pages
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored

Annotation

Data from a sample of 391 adult female residents of Charleston County, South Carolina, of whom 294 were crime victims assessed for Crime-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CR-PTSD), were used to examine the relationship between development of the disorder and various victim and crime characteristics. Of the 294 assessed victims, 82 were CR-PTSD positive and 212 were CR-PTSD negative.