The maltreatment-violence link: Exploring the role of maltreatment experiences and other individual and social risk factors among young people who offend

Catia G. Malvaso, Paul H. Delfabbro, Andrew Day and Gavin Nobes

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2018, vol. 55, issue C, 35-45

Abstract: This study investigated the extent to which violent offending in a population of young people detained in secure care facilities is related to variations in child maltreatment after controlling for other known individual and social correlates of crime.

Keywords: Maltreatment; Out-of-home care; Youth offending; Violence; Anger; Aggression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.01.006

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