Girls' Sexual Development in the Inner City: From Compelled Childhood Sexual Contact to Sex-for-Things Exchanges

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 73-96

  Dunlap, Eloise ^a   Golub, Andrew ^a   Johnson, Bruce D ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

Child sexual abuse; Drugs; Ecology; Poverty; Social exclusion; Subculture; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG ABUSE; ECOLOGY; FAMILY; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; POVERTY; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUALITY; SINGLE PARENT; VIOLENCE; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COERCION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 1542286909     PISSN: 10538712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J070v12n02_04     Document Type: Article

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