RE: incidence of abuse among abusers

["Petrucci, Carrie" <Carrie.Petrucci@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

See Cathy Spatz Widom's work --

Robin Weeks,  Cathy Spatz Widom.  (1998).  Self-reports of Early Childhood
Victimization among incarcerated adult male felons.  Journal of
Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 13, No. 3, June 1998, 346-361.

She also analyzed a midwestern sample of juvenile dependency cases and
followed them for several years -- several articles resulted, here's one:

Cathy Spatz Widom.  (1989).  Child abuse, neglect, and adult behavior:
Research Design and findings on criminality, violence and child abuse.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 59(3), July 1989, 355-367.

BJS also has a publication on adult inmate populations.

Carrie Petrucci, Ph.D.
OCJP Program Evaluation
1130 "K" Street, LL22
Sacramento, CA  95814
Phone: (916) 322-0747
Fax: (916) 324-9179

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Hord [mailto:Jim@Hord.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:24 AM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Re: incidence of abuse among abusers


There was a neat little study several years ago where they questioned
inmates in a Texas facility and found very high ratios of child abuse
in the history of child abusers.  Then they went back, interviewed the
same subjects, but told them that they would have a polygraph test
following the questioning, and that those who lied would have time
added to their sentence.  This time the ratio was very low.

I used to have the reference, but that was one hard-drive failure ago.
If you need it, let me know backchannel and I can suggest how you
might find it.

Jim Hord
Jim@Hord.com
http://jim.hord.com



Subject: incidence of abuse among abusers


> Does anyone know of studies that have examined the incidence of
> retrospective histories of child abuse among adult perpetrators of
abuse? I
> know of studies that estimate the incidence among abused children
who go on
> to abuse their own children, but not its reciprocal. Thanks for your
help.
> --Doug Waite
>