Violence Against Women: Identifying Risk Factors. Research in Brief

摘要

This report summarizes two studies that used different methodologies and samples to determine the extent to which physical and sexual abuse as a child or adolescent contribute to later abuse. In one study, researchers followed college women and men for 4 years, asking them questions about past and current victimization each year. In the other study, researchers asked urban, low-income, mostly black women who had substantiated child sexual abuse about their adolescent and adult victimization.