Howing P T, Wodarski J S, Kurtz P D, Gaudin J M, Herbst E N
School of Social Work, University of Georgia, Athens 30602.
Soc Work. 1990 May;35(3):244-9.
There is an association between child abuse and delinquency, but problems with study design, definition, and method currently prevent a definitive understanding of the sequences and causal relations involved. The evidence indicates that a bidirectional relationship exists between child abuse and delinquency. A framework that uses Patterson's analysis of coercive processes suggests that child characteristics, parental inadequacies, and external stressors each play a part in child abuse and delinquency.
虐待儿童与青少年犯罪之间存在关联，但目前研究设计、定义和方法方面的问题阻碍了我们对其中涉及的先后顺序和因果关系形成明确的认识。有证据表明，虐待儿童与青少年犯罪之间存在双向关系。一个采用帕特森对强制过程分析的框架表明，儿童自身特点、父母的不足之处以及外部压力源在虐待儿童和青少年犯罪中均起到一定作用。
