D Finkelhor

..To test and improve upon the list of adverse childhood experiences from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study scale by examining the ability of a broader range to correlate with mental health symptoms...

..The complex and diverse patterns of developmental vulnerability to different kinds of victimization at different ages need more exploration and explanation in order to better target prevention and intervention policies...

..The objective of this research was to obtain national estimates of exposure to the full spectrum of the childhood violence, abuse, and crime victimizations relevant to both clinical practice and public-policy approaches to the problem...

..The identification of such pathways and the ages of high onset should help practitioners design programs for preventing vulnerable children from becoming poly-victims...

..When polyvictimization was taken into account, it greatly reduced or eliminated the association between most other individual victimizations and symptomatology scores...

..To assess trends in children's exposure to abuse, violence, and crime victimizations...

..To obtain national estimates of the degree to which school, police, and medical authorities are involved after children experience violence, abuse, and crime victimizations...

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..To assess the role of multiple victimization, or what is termed in this article "poly-victimization," in explaining trauma symptomatology...

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..The aim was to provide a basis for identifying which youth may be most at risk from interacting online with unknown people...

..Mental health practitioners need information about the dynamics of this problem and the characteristics of victims and offenders because they are likely to encounter related issues in a variety of contexts...

..However, the Internet may be introducing some qualitatively new dimensions-such as an increased severity, an increased frequency, or unique dynamics-that require new responses or interventions...

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..Findings reiterate the importance of screening for a variety of different types of victimization in mental health settings, including both online and offline forms...

..We explore these issues and discuss implications for professionals who provide mental health treatment...

..The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and characteristics of youth who receive requests to make and send sexual pictures of themselves over the Internet...

..Adults' concerns are valid but need to be supported with information that illuminates the real safety issues and targets the specific population of youth impacted...

..To examine past-year and lifetime rates of online victimization and associations with offline victimizations, trauma symptomatology, and delinquency among adolescents...

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..To describe the variety of ways social networking sites (SNSs) are used to facilitate the sexual exploitation of youth, as well as identify victim, offender, and case differences between arrests, with and without a SNS nexus...

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..Results suggest that sexual victimization experiences may have uniquely powerful effects on self-esteem that are not apparent for other types of victimization and stress...

..Findings indicate law enforcement responses to juvenile prostitution are influential in determining whether such youth are viewed as victims of commercial sexual exploitation or as delinquents...

..Future interventions might consider targeting youth with co-occurring internalizing and externalizing symptoms during especially vulnerable developmental stages...

..As in 2000, one in six cases that began with investigations of CP possession detected offenders who had molested children...

..The I-POE, as an easy-to-administer, short screening index, holds promise in this regard. Initial testing of the instrument points to its utility in identifying persons who are experiencing a broad range of Internet-related problems...

..To understand to the degree to which a broad variety of victimizations, including child maltreatment, conventional crime, peer, and sexual victimizations, persist for children from 1 year to the next...

..At the same time, these relationships may have helpful aspects...

..Victimization risk in single parent families was more affected by their lower socioeconomic status and residence in more violence neighborhoods and schools...

..To describe the characteristics of episodes in which juveniles became victims of sex crimes committed by people they met through the Internet...

..Prevention messages and investigation approaches should be revised to incorporate awareness of such cases and their dynamics...

..Across studies, police do not appear to hinder CPS effectiveness and may actually promote it. Their investigations should be coordinated in every community...

..Results suggest that cumulative exposure to multiple forms of victimization over a child's life-course represents a substantial source of mental health risk...

..Findings suggest that the Internet sometimes allows law enforcement to interdict before a youth is victimized, gather solid evidence of offenses, and find and track some offenders...

..Few youths reported bad experiences with online friends...

..The goal was to assess the extent of unwanted and wanted exposure to online pornography among youth Internet users and associated risk factors...

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..The findings provide justification for being concerned about such peer and sibling violence in schools and families and for counting such victimizations in victimization inventories and clinical assessments...

..This study was designed to track trends in reports of unwanted sexual solicitations, harassment, and unwanted exposure to pornography via the Internet between 2000 and 2005 across various demographic sub-groups of youth...

..More efforts are also needed to integrate and rationalize the system, particularly through information exchange among its components...

..Health care professionals, educators, and parents should be prepared to educate youth about how to respond to online sexual solicitations, including encouraging youth to disclose and report such encounters and to talk about them...

..Comprehensive and well-researched instrumentation could greatly advance the study and treatment of juvenile victimization...

..The mean number of victimizations for a child or youth with any victimization was 3.0, and a child or youth with one victimization had a 69% chance of experiencing another during a single year...

..Finally, the data systems need to be modified to provide continuity and interrelationships among systems, either by using uniform definitions, or integrating data systems to facilitate the tracking of children across systems...

..Also to compare such children to other victims and non-victims, and assess the contribution of cumulative victimization to levels of psychological distress...

..In light of public concern about the dangers to young people from maintaining online journals or "blogs," this exploratory paper examines whether bloggers are at increased risk for online sexual solicitation or harassment...

..However, better epidemiological and evaluation research will be needed to identify the key factors...

..To explore factors that facilitate the receipt of mental health treatment among juvenile crime victims...

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..CONCLUSION: The JVQ has potential for use in future epidemiological research as well as clinical evaluation concerning the victimization of children...

..CONCLUSION: Researchers and clinicians should be taking steps to identify poly-victims within the populations with which they work and have several alternative ways of doing so...

..g., no victimization, multiple types of victimization). It also evaluated whether multiple victimization was associated with greater psychological distress and lower academic performance...

..Finkelhor also points to evidence that supports counseling strategies both for offenders, particularly juveniles, to reduce re-offending, and for victims, to prevent negative mental health and life course outcomes associated with abuse...

..We sought to identify the characteristics of youth who are targets of Internet harassment and characteristics related to reporting distress as a result of the incident...

..There is also evidence for substantial groups of youth who are primarily delinquent but not seriously victimized, as well as youth who are primarily victimized but not delinquent...

..Internet safety programs urge youth to avoid sharing personal information and talking with "strangers" online...