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The present study examined several protective and vulnerability factors in a subsample of adolescents who witnessed high levels of interparental violence to determine what factors differentiated adolescents who inflicted (and received) violence in their dating relationship and those who had violence-free dating relationships. Findings revealed that males who witnessed high levels of interparental violence, who inflicted violence in their dating relationships, were differentiated from those who had violence-free relationships by the following variables: low socioeconomic status, exposure to community and school violence, acceptance of violence in dating relationships, and low self-esteem. Low socioeconomic status and acceptance of violence in dating relationships differentiated males who experienced dating violence and those who had not. With regard to females, exposure to community and school violence, poor school performance, and experiencing child abuse differentiated those who inflicted dating violence from those who had not, while poor school performance and experiencing child abuse differentiated females who experienced dating violence and those who had not. Implications of the findings are discussed....
We examined a sample of 112 adolescents convicted of homicide in adult court and sentenced to prison. To add to the descriptive literature regarding juvenile homicide, data are presented regarding their psychosocial characteristics, delineation of the crimes, and features of the victims. Family abuse in this sample was also explored in depth. Youngsters who came from abusive families more often tended to be Caucasian and younger than adolescents who did not have abusive families. Subjects who were abused were also more likely to experience suicide ideation or attempts prior to the commission of the homicide than subjects who were not abused. These findings provide preliminary support for the “lockage phenomenon,” which postulates that, in abusive families, some stressed adolescents may respond by either committing suicide or homicide as a means of escape....
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