Re: The "cost" of unprevented abuse

[Trudy Festinger <tf2@xxxxxxx>]

Cathy Spatz Widom has conducted many fine studies that address the 'Cycle of
Violence' question.  For instance, there's a 2003 article by White, HR &
Widom "Intimate partner violence among abused...." in Aggressive Behavior,
vol 29(4), pp. 332-3345 that contains data as well as references to many
other sources.

Trudy Festinger
New York University

on 3/1/04 8:26 PM, byrneml at byrneml@bc.edu wrote:

> Our Children's Trust fund is looking for research or evidence of the cost of
> adults who have been abuse victims as children becoming abusive adults. This
> can be a very compelling argument with legislators when funding is critical.
> 
> If you can suggest references or sites with this information, please reply to
> Jerry Docherty below or to me.
> Many thanks,
> Mary Byrne
> 
>> ===== Original Message From jdocherty@mctf.state.ma.us =====
> 
> Have you ever seen any research that talks about the
> incidence of victims of abuse / neglect that then as adults become abusers.
> For the cost both human and $$$ we would love to talk about any known rates
> of victims becoming victimizers????
> 
> Jerry Docherty
> Director of Operation
> Children's Trust Fund
> 617 727-8957
> www.mctf.org
> 
> Mary Byrne
> byrneml@bc.edu
> Boston College GSSW
> Days 978-542-6638
> PM 617-868-6866
>