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victimization surveys and compares the role of individual and family characteristics for five forms of childhood violence, including …, aggravated violence, and domestic abuse; that 30% of young victims of sex and threats will be victimized again; and that the …
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high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and …
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impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that … exposure to violence during the first trimester of pregnancy leads to a small but precisely estimated increase in the risk of …, where violence is endemic and are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence …
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Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction....
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the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence -measured by homicide rates- on birth outcomes. Focusing on small … communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide rates reflect actual exposure to violence, the analysis shows that … exposure to violence during pregnancy leads to deterioration in birth outcomes: one extra homicide during the first trimester …
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Themengebieten des täglichen Lebens in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern durchgeführt wurden: Gewalt und Wasser. Im ersten dieser … Konflikt lebt. Detailliert die Wirkung solcher Exponierung auf das Auftreten häuslicher Gewalt untersu... … in developing and emerging economies: violence, and water. Within the first of these areas, the analysis is centred on …
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Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...
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