The international epidemiology of child sexual abuse: A continuation of Finkelhor (1994)

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 331-342

  Pereda, Noemí ^a   Guilera, Georgina ^b   Forns, Maria ^a   Gómez Benito, Juana ^b  

^a Facultat de Psicologia   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Child sexual abuse; Epidemiology; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 67349160173     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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