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Soc Work
; 35(3): 244-9, 1990 May.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2193402
RESUMO
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.