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Article: Differences in psychological health and family dysfunction by sexual victimization type in a clinical sample of African American adolescent women.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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According to the Federal Criminal Code, sexual victimization exists along a continuum that includes behaviors ranging from threats/pressures to engage in vaginal, anal, or oral sex to physical violence to force a woman or man to engage in sexual activity against her or his will (Kilpatrick, Whalley, & Edmunds, 2000). Since 1973, the U.S. Department of Justice has been collecting data on personal and household victimization from a nationally representative sample, which then is reported in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Examination of the most recent trends for the NCVS from 1993 through 2001 reveals that, although the national crime rate has decreased ...