Effects of Domestic Violence on Children

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This study examines for a connection between antisocial/criminal behavior, witnessing domestic violence, the current age of witness and the nature of the antisocial/criminal behavior committed in a sample of female inmates. The justification for such an examination is related to the fact that a good deal of the existing research on domestic violence indicates that children who witnessed domestic violence tend to be adults who engage in antisocial and/or criminal behavior.

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"In addition, most of the studies that investigate the effects of witnessing domestic violence make little or no distinctions between children who see other family members beaten but who are not beaten themselves, children who are beaten themselves and who also see other family members beaten, and children who are beaten themselves but do not see other family members physically abused. Thus, if the witnessing domestic violence-antisocial/criminal behavior relationship differs in terms of these three different categories of "witnessing" there has been no research to uncover this."

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