Journal
JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 503-520Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0886260504262961
Keywords
sexual victimization; perpetrators; homeless youth
Funding
- NIAAA NIH HHS [AA10253-05] Funding Source: Medline
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Risk factors associated with the likelihood of being sexually victimized by a stranger or friend/acquaintance since being oil the street was examined among 372 homeless and runaway youth. Young people were interviewed on the streets and in shelters by outreach workers using a systematic sampling strategy. Youth who engaged in more high-risk behaviors were expected to be at greater risk for sexual victimization by both known and unknown assailants. Results indicated that for females, running from home for the first time at an earlier age was associated with sexual victimization by, both a stranger and friend/acquaintance. However, engaging in deviant subsistence strategies, survival sex, and grooming predicted being sexually victimized by a friendlacquaintance. For males, survival sex and grooming predicted stranger sexual Victimization, whereas sexual orientation was associated with sexual victimization by a friend/acquaintance. Overall, 35% of the sample had been sexually victimized.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available