TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Rates and predictors of child maltreatment re-perpetration against new victims and prior victims
JO  - Child abuse and neglect
A1  - Potter, Marina Haddock
A1  - Kennedy, Reeve S.
A1  - Font, Sarah A.
SP  - e105419
EP  - e105419
VL  - 123
IS  - 
N2  - 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 ("same victim re-perpetration"); 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-2134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105419
ID  - ref1
ER  -