Child Maltreatment and Offending Behavior

Pathways from Child Maltreatment to Juvenile Offending

Juvenile Offending Trajectories: Pathways from Child Maltreatment to Juvenile Offending, and Police Cautioning in Queensland

Transitions and turning points: examining the links between child maltreatment and juvenile offending.

OBJECTIVE The links between child maltreatment and juvenile offending are well established. However, the majority of maltreated children do not offend. The research presented in this paper examines the impact that timing and chronicity of child maltreatment have on juvenile offending. METHODS Administrative data were obtained on all children who were born in Queensland, Australia in 1983 or 1...

The link between child maltreatment and adolescent offending - Family Matters 2011 Issue No. 89

This paper is concerned with the nexus between abuse and neglect and adolescent offending in the lives of some children and young people, and the lack of a coordinated response to these by both the child protection and juvenile justice systems. The “early years” message has had considerable influence, particularly in relation to child protection and early intervention, but “early intervention” ...

Child health and maltreatment.

Children who are abused have been said to have more illnesses than children who are not maltreated. The relationship between abuse and illness has been hypothesized to function in 2 ways: (1) that abuse precedes the illnesses and children from abusive homes become ill because of the damaging environment they endure, or, conversely, (2) that the illnesses precede the abuse, with the fussy behavi...