Project

Effects of Child Maltreatment on Antisocial Behavior

Project Description

This is a secondary data analysis project that seeks to replicate and extend published research findings on the combined and unique effects on antisocial behavior, crime, and adulthood interpersonal violence perpetration and victimization of differing forms of child maltreatment and childhood exposure to domestic violence, subsequent forms of victimization, and stress. The study also investigates patterns of resilience in maltreated children and predictors of desistence in antisocial behavior for maltreated and multiply victimized children. Data are from the Lehigh Longitudinal Study, a unique prospective investigation of the causes and consequences of child maltreatment, which began in the 1970s when children in the study were 18 months to six years of age. Data were most recently collected in 2008-2010, when children had entered middle adulthood.