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Prosecutors began taking steps to prevent victimization and discourage crime.
Research has demonstrated a relation between childhood victimization and later delinquency.
Most females who commit crimes have a history of violent victimization.

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victimization
These findings are robust but the developmental processes underlying the connections between peer victimization and psychopathology remain unclear.
We also examined whether regulation, aggression, and withdrawal mediated the risk pathways between negative emotions and concurrent or subsequent victimization.
The demonization of female consumers seems to be a fascinating counterpart to the idealization and victimization of female producers.
The current analyses showed, however, that accounting for these prior symptoms reduced somewhat but did not eliminate the association between victimization and later symptoms.
Posttraumatic stress disorder associated with exposure to criminal victimization in clinical and community populations.
Results indicated that externalizing behavior was positively associated with physical victimization for boys and girls, but not with relational victimization.
Specifically, we focused on victimization as a predictor of impulsiveness and difficulties in attention regulation.
In terms of the social information processing variables, attributions of sorrow to provoking peers were a positive predictor of physical victimization.
A second limitation of our prior analysis, shared by virtually all victimization impact research, was its failure to account for previctimization symptomatology.
Potential developmental pathways between early victimization and later behavior problems have not been extensively explored by previous investigators.
It is likely that violence victimization, more so than witnessing, may be associated with both isolation and self-estrangement.
For younger children, lifetime victimization prior to the present year made an independent contribution to current trauma symptoms.
Thus, we anticipated that physical victimization would be more strongly related to externalizing behaviors for boys than for girls.
Children who knew more about typical situations eliciting these emotions had a higher risk for physical victimization.
Aggression and delinquent behaviors could also be characterized as maladaptive coping strategies to deal with the emotional arousal created by peer victimization experiences.
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