Longterm Consequences of Child Maltreatment

Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 225-247

  Widom, Cathy Spatz ^a  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child Maltreatment; Childhood Sexual Abuse; Physical Abuse; Sexual Abuse; Young Adulthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 85130773728     PISSN: 22119701     EISSN: 2211971X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7208-3_12     Document Type: Chapter

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