Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16801, United States.
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16801, United States.
Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Jan;123:105419. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105419. Epub 2021 Nov 30.
Limited prior research has examined the rates or predictors of re-perpetration of child maltreatment. Yet, perpetrators may have multiple victims, and perpetrators, rather than their victims, are often the primary focus of child welfare services.
We examine rates of child maltreatment re-perpetration of repeat and new victims, and test perpetrator demographics and maltreatment index incident case characteristics as predictors of re-perpetration.
We use a sample of 285,245 first-time perpetrators of a substantiated maltreatment incident in 2010 from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System.
We use linear probability models with full information maximum likelihood to test new victim and same victim perpetration by the end of FY 2018.
Fifteen percent of perpetrators re-maltreated one or more of their original victims ("same victim re-perpetration"); 12% maltreated a new victim. Overall, re-perpetration was more common among younger, female, and White perpetrators. Perpetrators who were the biological or adoptive parent of their initial victim(s) had higher rates of same victim re-perpetration; new victim re-perpetration was more common among perpetrators who initially victimized an adoptive or stepchild. Same victim re-perpetration was less common among perpetrators of physical abuse than other types of maltreatment, and new victim re-perpetration was more common among perpetrators of sexual abuse and neglect than physical abuse.
Child welfare agencies should track re-perpetration in addition to revictimization as part of agency evaluations and risk assessments.
先前的研究很少涉及儿童虐待行为再次发生的比率或预测因素。然而，施害者可能有多个受害者，而且往往是以施害者而不是受害者为重点的儿童福利服务的主要对象。
我们考察了重复和新受害者的儿童虐待行为再次发生的比率，并检验了施害者人口统计学特征和虐待指数事件特征作为再次发生的预测因素。
我们使用了 2010 年全国儿童虐待和忽视数据系统中 285245 名首次被证实的虐待事件施害者的样本。
我们使用全信息极大似然线性概率模型来检验 2018 财年末新受害者和同一受害者的施害行为。
15%的施害者重新虐待了一个或多个原受害者（“同一受害者再次施害”）；12%的施害者虐待了新受害者。总体而言，再次施害在年龄较小、女性和白人施害者中更为常见。最初受害者是其亲生或领养父母的施害者，其同一受害者再次施害的比率较高；最初施害于领养子女或继子女的施害者，新受害者再次施害的比率较高。与其他类型的虐待相比，身体虐待的施害者再次施害的比率较低，而性虐待和忽视的施害者新受害者再次施害的比率较高。
儿童福利机构应该将再次施害与再次受害一起纳入机构评估和风险评估中进行跟踪。
