@article{ref1,
title="Rates and predictors of child maltreatment re-perpetration against new victims and prior victims",
journal="Child abuse and neglect",
year="2021",
author="Potter, Marina Haddock and Kennedy, Reeve S. and Font, Sarah A.",
volume="123",
number="",
pages="e105419-e105419",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Limited prior research has examined the rates or predictors of re-perpetration of child maltreatment. Yet, perpetrators may have multiple victims, and perpetrators, rather than their victims, are often the primary focus of child welfare services. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: We examine rates of child maltreatment re-perpetration of repeat and new victims, and test perpetrator demographics and maltreatment index incident case characteristics as predictors of re-perpetration. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: We use a sample of 285,245 first-time perpetrators of a substantiated maltreatment incident in 2010 from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. <br><br>METHODS: We use linear probability models with full information maximum likelihood to test new victim and same victim perpetration by the end of FY 2018. <br><br>RESULTS: Fifteen percent of perpetrators re-maltreated one or more of their original victims (&quot;same victim re-perpetration&quot;); 12% maltreated a new victim. Overall, re-perpetration was more common among younger, female, and White perpetrators. Perpetrators who were the biological or adoptive parent of their initial victim(s) had higher rates of same victim re-perpetration; new victim re-perpetration was more common among perpetrators who initially victimized an adoptive or stepchild. Same victim re-perpetration was less common among perpetrators of physical abuse than other types of maltreatment, and new victim re-perpetration was more common among perpetrators of sexual abuse and neglect than physical abuse. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Child welfare agencies should track re-perpetration in addition to revictimization as part of agency evaluations and risk assessments.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-2134",
doi="10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105419",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105419"
}