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Potential Pathways From Stigmatization and Internalizing Symptoms to Delinquency in Sexually Abused Youth

Candice Feiring

The College of New Jersey, feiring{at}tcnj.edu

Shari Miller-Johnson

Duke University

Charles M. Cleland

National Development and Research Institutes

Although childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has been linked to risk for delinquency, research is limited on the potential pathways from CSA to subsequent delinquent outcomes. A total of 160 youth with confirmed CSA histories were interviewed at the time of abuse discovery, when they were 8 to 15 years of age, and again 1 and 6 years later. The findings supported the proposed relations from stigmatization following the abuse (abuse-specific shame and self-blame attributions) and internalizing symptoms to subsequent delinquency through anger and affiliation with deviant peers. This longitudinal research suggests that clinical interventions for victims of CSA must be sensitive to these affective and cognitive processes and how they affect delinquent activity.

Key Words: childhood sexual abuse • delinquency • peer deviancy • stigmatization • internalizing symptoms

Child Maltreatment, Vol. 12, No. 3, 220-232 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1077559507301840
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