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  • You Learn What You Live: Prevalence of Childhood Adversity in the Lives of Juveniles Arrested for Sexual Offenses. 
    Levenson, Jill S.; Baglivio, Michael; Epps, Nathan; Royall, William “Chip”; Gomez, Katherine C.; Kaplan, Dahlia (2017)
    Social workers often find themselves working with children or adolescents who have been victims of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including youths who have ended up in the juvenile justice system. Childhood trauma ...
  • You only pray that somebody would step in: Mapping the gaps between expert and public understandings of elder abuse in America 
    Volmert, Andrew; Lindland, Eric (FrameWorks Institute, 2016)
    This report begins by describing the “untranslated expert story” of elder abuse. This account constitutes experts’ shared understanding of the issue and outlines what elder abuse is, what causes it, its effects, and ...
  • Young Adult Confidential Survey 
    Taussig, Heather; Garrido, Edward (NCJ, 2017)
    The Fostering Health Families (FHF) program is a positive development program for at risk youth, including those with a history of child maltreatment and foster care placement. Previous data were collected at three time ...
  • Young Men of Color and the Other Side of Harm: Addressing Disparities in Our Response to Violence 
    Sered, Danielle (Vera Institute of Justice, 2014)
    This paper provides an overview of the victimization of young men of color, primarily through homicide, assault, and robbery, as well as the many failure of the victim services field to adequately address this victimization. ...
  • Youth in Minnesota Correctional Facilities and Adverse Childhood Experiences: Responses to the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey 
    Hurley Swayze, Dana; Buskovick, Danette (Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Justice Programs, 2015)
    The purpose of this report is to explore how common it is for youth in correctional facilities to report experiences with trauma based on their responses to the 2013 MSS [Minnesota Student Survey]. In addition, this report ...
  • Youth Internet Safety Education: Aligning Programs With the Evidence Base 
    Finkelhor, David; Walsh, Kerryann; Jones, Lisa; Mitchell, Kimberly; Collier, Anne (Crimes Against Children Research Center, 2020)
    Background:This review critically examines the messages of youth internet safety education programs in the light of research about both the dynamics of internet dangers and the efficacy of youth prevention education.Methods:Using ...
  • Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) 
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019)
    The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created Youth Risk Behaviors Surveillance System (YRBSS) to look at health behaviors that contribute to disability and early death. Additionally, issues such bullying, ...
  • Youth Victimization, 1995-2015 
    Unknown author (Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), 2018)
    Each of the NCVRW Crime and Victimization Fact Sheets provides a snapshot of current research and victimization statistics in the United States....Young children and adolescents are victims of the same crimes as adults ...
  • Youth Violence: Facts at a Glance 
    Unknown author (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2016)
    This fact sheet provides data and statistics on youth violence from the 2012-2013 school year and from studies in 2014 and 2015. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, a 2015 survey of high school students, measured students’ ...