Purpose – The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of The Leadership Program's Violence Prevention … to promote a range of communication skills associated with violence prevention and alter classroom norms about aggression … and violence. Design/methodology/approach – A multi‐site, quasi‐experimental effectiveness trial examined pre‐ and post …

We test whether adverse childhood experiences exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health are … factors. We find that maltreatment experiences are significantly and robustly associated with neuroticism, conscientiousness … health could be one important pathway via which maltreatment affects adulthood personality. Maltreatment experiences, in …

causal explanation and a typically unmeasured spillover effect of violence against children. Other types of maltreatment … adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of maltreatment by adults, both for the … adolescent and his/her classmates. While all types of individual experiences with maltreatment reduce adolescent hopefulness …

Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on … measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the …