Sentences with phrase «victimization rates»

Smith, Robinson, and Marchi (2016) examined the internal validity and external validity of these data sets, comparing country victimization rates.

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

Finkelhor and his colleagues agreed that there were some bright spots in the research: «Peer victimization rates and bullying perpetration rates in the past year were lower for the younger children (ages 5 — 9) who had been exposed to higher quality programs in their lifetime.»

The report compares the dating safety and victimization rates between traditional relationships and online relationships.

Female youth victimization rates range from 8 to 57 percent and their perpetration rates are higher than the males, varying from 28 to 33 percent.

Compare those statistics to a report from the Brookings Institute that showed that the victimization rate for all personal crimes among individuals with family incomes of less than $ 15,000 was over three times the rate of individuals with family incomes of $ 75,000 or more.

Compare those statistics to a report from the Brookings Institute that showed that the victimization rate for all personal crimes among individuals with family incomes of less than $ 15,000 was over three times the rate of individuals with family incomes of $ 75,000 or more.

Not exact matches

African - American victims have approximately the same rates of victimization as Caucasian children, but are more likely to experience penetration as part of their victimization experience (Wyatt, 1985).

Girls indicated more frequent digital sexual coercion victimization, and girls and boys reported equal rates of digital monitoring and control, and digital direct aggression.

The children's teachers also provided ratings of children's victimization by peers.

The researchers suggest the lower overall rate of future victimization may be attributable to increased awareness of victims, police action, and other services that victims receive after reporting their experience to authorities.

At 13 years, the same children rated their relational difficulties associated with victimization, social isolation, intentional and planned aggression by peers, and antisocial behaviour.

The researchers suggest that better understanding of how reporting to police affects future victimization could help law enforcement and other government agencies better engage with victims, particularly those in minority communities, who experience higher rates of victimization.

However, among those girls who had higher rates of previous dating violence victimization, completion of «My Voice, My Choice» was associated with lower rates of psychological victimization — being yelled at or called names, having a boy try to frighten or spread rumors about her — and lower rates of psychological distress.

«My Voice, My Choice» did not reduce rates of physical victimization.

«Given such high rates of victimization, helping these young people is especially important since teen dating violence can be a stepping stone toward adult intimate partner violence,» said lead author Meredith Dank.

And here's the real surprise: according to the Crime Victims Institute study, online daters actually tend to have slightly lower rates of victimization than traditional daters.

Several rates of dangerous or troublesome behaviors declined, including bullying; fighting; victimization of students; students reporting being injured or threatened; and student reports of disorder or the presence of gangs.

Canadians living in the eastern part of the country, where rates of both self - reported victimization and police - reported crime are generally lower, reported being more satisfied with their personal safety from crime than those in the west.

Despite higher rates of victimization, younger Canadians were more satisfied with their personal safety from crime than older Canadians.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

An estimated 1,560 children died because of maltreatment, with the highest rates of victimization in the first year of life — 20.6 per 1,000 children.1 Research demonstrates that outcomes for children who survive child maltreatment (defined as neglect, abuse, or a combination of the two) are poor, with performance below national norms in a range of outcomes areas, including psychosocial and cognitive well - being and academic achievement.2, 3,4 The costs to society overall of these children not reaching their full potential and the lower than expected productivity of adult survivors of abuse are estimated at as much as $ 50 - 90 billion per year in the U.S. 5,6 These findings underscore the need for strategies to prevent child maltreatment in order to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.

Overall, men were significantly more likely to report victimization; perpetration rates did not vary by gender.

Using data collected to evaluate the Hawaii Healthy Start Program (same as Healthy Families America), the study estimated over two 3 - year intervals (during program implementation and over long - term follow - up) whether home visitation beginning after the birth of a child was associated with changes in (1) average rates of mothers» IPV victimization and perpetration and (2) rates of specific IPV types (physical assault, verbal abuse, sexual assault, and injury).

However, when the children were 7 to 9 years of age, the intervention group did not report significantly lower rates of IPV victimization or perpetration than the control group.

Many large - scale cross-national studies rely on a single - item measurement when comparing prevalence rates of traditional bullying, traditional victimization, cyberbullying, and cyber-victimization between countries.

Abstract: Many large - scale cross-national studies rely on a single - item measurement when comparing prevalence rates of traditional bullying, traditional victimization, cyberbullying, and cyber-victimization between countries.

The association between gender nonconformity and peer victimization varied as a... function of the type of victimization being experienced (physical, verbal, relational) and the source of ratings of victimization and gender nonconformity (self or peers).

function of the type of victimization being experienced (physical, verbal, relational) and the source of ratings of victimization and gender nonconformity (self or peers).

Notably, peer - victimization is especially prevalent in the elementary school years, with a mean rate of victimization of 23 % of students across five urban cities [5].

Patients who endorsed any of the physical acts were also asked to rate the emotional impact of the victimization (I felt sad / depressed, I felt anxious / fearful / scared, and I felt frustrated / angry) on a 6 - point scale (from «Not at All» to «Extremely»).

Furthermore, there is some evidence that the rate of peer - victimization in males does not change between middle school and senior high school.

Previous studies looking at the association between depressive symptoms and victimization have assessed levels of depression in samples of abused women and these studies have largely supported a heightened risk for depressive symptoms among abused women with prevalence rates of depression over 50 % (e.g., Gleason 1993).

However, findings have not been as supportive of elevated risk when examining rates of depression in nationally representative samples and rates of victimization in depressed samples (Afifi et al. 2009; Chang et al. 2009; Dienemann et al. 2000).

Results revealed that girls with a higher level of affiliation with deviant peers were more likely to endorse a risky lifestyle and reported higher rates of all forms of dating violence victimization.

In the current study with a sample of chronically depressed men and women, rates of physical and psychological victimization were similar to rates reported in a number of general community samples during a similar time period (Jose and O'Leary 2009; Schafer et al. 1998) and to rates reported with a sample of unipolar and bipolar depressed patients (Dienemann et al. 2000).

This is the first study to report prevalence rates of partner victimization in chronically depressed patients.

It is possible that the rates of physical victimization in the current study of chronically depressed individuals may be lower because depressive verbalizations may serve to suppress physical aggression by a partner.

To this end, 208 monozygotic and same - sex dizygotic twins (120 girls) rated their level of anxiety and peer victimization in grade 6 (mean age = 12.1 years, SD = 2.8).

Children who were bullied by a sibling reported much higher rates of peer victimization.

Several studies have reported that early trauma, and especially childhood sexual abuse, specifically increases the risk of later hallucinations in both schizophrenia and bipolar patients.69 — 73 On the other hand, insecure attachment appears to be specifically associated with paranoia and not hallucinations.45, 46 Evidence that discrimination or victimization plays a specific role in the development of paranoid beliefs has emerged from a population survey in the United States and Mexico, 39 from a prospective population - based study in Holland, 32 and from patients» retrospective reports of their experiences of intrusive74, 75 and threatening76 life events (as noted above, this effect may contribute to the elevated rates of psychosis in immigrant populations).

Despite the fact that between 1995 and 1996 the violent crime rate declined 10 percent, continuing the downward trend seen since 1994, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics» National Crime Victimization survey, and that property crime continued its 20 - year decline, consumer perception of crime still lingers (For more recent stats, posted after press time, see www.ojp.usdoj.gov).