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The Victimization of Children and Youth

A Comprehensive Overview

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Handbook of Youth and Justice

Part of the book series: The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice ((PSIC))

Abstract

While the field of juvenile delinquency stands as a monument to social science, one of its most mature, theoretically and empirically developed domains, the topic of juvenile victimization—the opposite pole of the offender-victim equation—has been comparatively neglected. It is true that one can find substantial research on specific child victimization topics like child abuse or child sexual assault, but there is nothing like the integrated and theoretically articulated interest that characterizes the field of juvenile delinquency.

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