Incidence/Prevalence

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2009

Mihalic, S., Fagan, A., Irwin, K., Ballard, D., Elliott, D., Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Report, 2004

After reviewing more than 600 programs, the Blueprints initiative identified 11 model programs and 21 promising programs that prevent violence and drug use and treat youth with problem behaviors. In this report, published by the University of Colorado Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, the authors include lessons learned from the Blueprints program implementation and recommendations for program designers and funders.

Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2008

Leeb, R.T., Paulozzi, L.J., Melanson, C., Simon, T.R., Arias, I., 2008

Finkelhor, D., 2008, New York: Oxford University Press

In this book, the author presents a comprehensive vision of the prevention, treatment, and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying, and exposure to community violence. Developmental victimology, his term for this integrated perspective, looks at child victimization across childhood's span and yields fascinating insights about how to categorize juvenile victimizations, how to think about risk and impact, and how victimization patterns change over the course of development. The book also provides a new model of society's response to child victimization - what Finkelhor calls the Juvenile Victim Justice System - and a new perspective on barriers that victims and their families encounter when seeking help.

Prinz, R.J. and Feerick, M.M., Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 6 (4), 2003, p. 221-222

Feerick, M.M. and Silverman, G.B., 2006, Baltimore: Brookes Publishing

Fantuzzo, J. and Fusco, R., Journal of Family Violence, 22 (7), p. 158-171

Finkelhor, D., Turner, H., Ormrod, R., Hamby,S., Kracke, K., 2009

This report presents the findings of the Safe Start National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence. The survey, sponsored by OJJDP with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the first to measure children's exposure to violence in homes, schools, and communities across all age groups. It found that more than 60 percent of the children surveyed were exposed to violence, directly or indirectly, within the past year.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009

R. McDonald, E. N. Jouriles, S. Ramisetty-Mikler, R. Caetano, C. E. Green, 2006
Journal of Family Psychology, 20 (1), p. 137-142

Finkelhor, D. and Jones, L.M., Juvenile Justice Bulletin, January 2004

The authors of this report discuss six plausible explanations for the decline in sexual abuse cases: (1) increasing conservatism within child protective service; (2) exclusion of cases that do not involve caretakers; (3) changes in CPS data collection methods; (4) less reporting to CPS; (5) a diminishing reservoir of older cases; and (6) a real decline in the incidence of sexual abuse.

Finkelhor, D. and Ormrod, R., Juvenile Justice Bulletin, October 2001

The authors of this bulletin drew on Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other data to provide a statistical portrait of juvenile homicide victimization. Topics include overall patterns, victim age groups, specific types of juvenile homicide victimization, and prevention methods.

Lauritsen, J.L., Juvenile Justice Bulletin, November 2003

In this issue, the author uses data extracted from the National Crime Victimization Survey to explore trends in violent victimization among youth, ages 12-17. Results reveal that youth who live in single-parent homes are at significantly higher risk for violence than their counterparts who live in two-parent homes, and have three times the risk for violent victimization than the average American.

A. L. Hazen, C. D. Connelly, K. Kelleher, J. Landsverk, R. Barth, 2009
Child Abuse and Neglect, 33, (8), p. 481-568

Loeber, R., Kalb, L., Huizinga, D., Juvenile Justice Bulletin, August 2001
 
The authors of this bulletin focus on victims of assaults or robberies who sustained serious injuries. The longitudinal data answer the following questions: (1) what was the prevalence of victimization involving serious injury in the general population; (2) what were the proximal and distal factors associated with becoming a victim who sustained a serious injury; and (3) which risk factors or combinations of risk factors best predicted victimization involving serious injury?

J. Osofsky, 2003
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 6 (3), p. 161-170

C. G. Moore, J. C. Probst, M. Tompkins, S. Cuffe, A. B. Martin, 2007
Pediatrics, Volume 119 (Supplement), p. 68-76

Finkelhor, D., Hamby, S.L., Ormrod, R.K. and Turner, H.A., Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 164 (3), 2010, p. 238-242

In this study, the authors assess trends in children's exposure to abuse, violence, and crime victimizations based on a comparison of 2 cross-sectional national telephone surveys conducted in 2003 and 2008. Declines occurred in psychological and emotional abuse by caregivers, exposure to community violence, and theft. Physical abuse by caregivers was unchanged.

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009

 
This data sheet presents statistics for 2005 and 2006 on leading causes of death, homicides, violent crime arrests, nonfatal assaults on youth ages 10-24, with a link to state statistics.