The Criminal Victimization–Depression Sequela

Hochstetler, Andy; DeLisi, Matt; Jones-Johnson, Gloria; Johnson, Wendell

doi:10.1177/0011128710382261

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“…These are sobering data for multiple reasons. There is a huge amount of evidence that sexual victimization is associated with subsequent internalizing disorders (Aday, Dye, & Kaiser, 2014;Kennedy & Prock, 2018;Turner, Finkelhor, & Ormrod, 2010), externalizing disorders (Miley, Fox, Muniz, Perkins, & DeLisi, 2020;Renner, Boel-Studt, & Whitney, 2018), impaired socioeconomic and social functioning (Hochstetler, DeLisi, Jones-Johnson, & Johnson, 2014;Kennedy & Prock, 2018), increased overall psychopathology (Najdowski & Ullman, 2009;Romano & De Luca, 2001), suicidal thoughts and behaviors (Aday et al, 2014), and, among males, becoming a sexual offender -567 (DeLisi & Beauregard, 2018;Drury, Elbert, & DeLisi, 2019;DeLisi, Kosloski, Vaughn, Caudill, & Trulson, 2014;Miley et al, 2020). Thus these victimizations are devastating to the victim and set into motion multiple, interrelated, immediate and long-term negative consequences.…”

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The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension

Drury¹,

Elbert²,

DeLisi

2020

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Studies of the dark figure of sexual offending using federal correctional clients reported significant evidence of previously unknown or hidden sexual violence, often among clients with no official criminal history. Unfortunately, research has produced variable estimates of how large the dark figure is. The current study sought to replicate recent studies of federal sexual offenders about the dark figure of sexual offending. We also extended the knowledge base by providing additional correlational analyses to see whether self-reported and official sexual offending have shared or divergent correlates. Overall, 73.8% of federal sexual offenders reported prior contact victims, which is higher than, but generally consistent with, prior prevalence estimates of 55-69% in studies of federal correctional clients. In the current data, clients convicted of child pornography possession or receipt and who had no official record of sexual abuse nevertheless reported contact sexual offenses in more than 59% of cases. 1 | INTRODUCTION Coined by Biderman and Reiss (1967), the "dark figure of crime" is a substantive and methodological concept that describes the differences between the true amount of criminal offending that occurs in a population as assayed by validated offender self-reports compared to official estimates based on arrest reports and other criminal justice system information and victimization surveys. To be sure, self-report and official estimates of crime have an

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The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension

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Elbert²,

DeLisi

2020

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…This finding is in accord with studies that have found that urban African American and Latino males, particularly those of low SES, are at the highest risk for violent victimization (Conway et al, 1994; Logan et al, 2011; Rodriguez & Brindis, 1995). This finding is of concern given the high psychological and physical cost associated with experiencing violent victimization (e.g., Barker et al, 2008; Carbone-López et al, 2006; Hochstetler et al, 2010; Spikes et al, 2010). Only after age 29 was there a substantial decline in experiences of violent victimization in the HH group.…”

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“…Non-fatal violent victimization is associated with a host of adverse mental and physical health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and illness and disease (Barker et al, 2008; Boynton-Jarrett et al, 2008; Carbone-López et al, 2006; Gros et al, 2010; Hochstetler et al, 2010; Kilpatrick et al, 2000; Resnick et al, 1997; Schneider et al, 2011; Spikes et al, 2010). Drug use is one of the most frequent correlates of having been victimized, making this a particularly important construct to be investigated in conjunction with violent victimization (e.g., Conway et al, 1994).…”

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Joint trajectories of victimization and marijuana use and their health consequences among urban African American and Puerto Rican young men

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We examined the joint trajectories of violent victimization and marijuana use from emerging adulthood to the early thirties and their health consequences in the early thirties among urban African American and Puerto Rican men. Data were collected from a community sample of young men (N=340) when they were 19, 24, 29, and 32 years old. The joint trajectories of violent victimization and marijuana use were extracted using growth mixture modeling. Three distinct joint trajectory groups of violent victimization and marijuana use were identified: high violent victimization/consistently high marijuana use; low violent victimization/increasingly high marijuana use, and low violent victimization/low marijuana use. Group comparisons using regression analyses showed that men who had experienced high levels of violent victimization and were high frequency marijuana over time users experienced the most adverse psychological and physical health outcomes, including more health problems, psychological maladjustment, and substance use disorders.

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“…The items related to being the victim of one (or several) of the following events: a terrorist attack, a home burglary, a physical attack, and a sexual assault. The response categories were "very low" (1), "low" (2), "moderate" (3), "high" (4) and "very high" (5).…”

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“…Beyond physical injury and property loss, the experience of being a victim of a criminal act has both short-and longterm negative effects on mental health [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Although the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are the most severe psychological sequelae of violent offenses [3,10,[12][13][14][15][16], several researchers have identified a broad spectrum of other psychological symptoms among victims of violent and nonviolent crime [2, 4, 6-10, 17, 18].…”

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Criminal victimization, cognitive social capital and mental health in an urban region in Germany: a path analysis

Kilian

Müller-Stierlin

Lamp

et al. 2021

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Purpose There is ample evidence that experiencing a criminal victimization is associated with lasting emotional problems among victims. To date, the mechanisms behind this association are not well understood. Based on the theoretical assumptions derived from a transactional stress-appraisal and coping model this study analyses the role of cognitive social capital (SC) in the association between criminal victimization (CV) and victims’ mental health. Methods A cross-sectional, computer-aided telephone survey including a representative sample of 3005 persons from three German cities was conducted. Respondents were asked about CV during their lifetime, cognitive SC, perceived victimization risk, perceived safety and perceived ability to prevent victimization. The PHQ-4 was used as a measure of anxiety and depression. The data were analyzed by means of logistic regression models and a path model controlled for sociodemographic characteristics. Results Lifetime CV with any type of crime was associated with a clinically relevant increased risk of mental disorder (PHQ-4 ≥ 9; OR 1.8, p ≤ 0.05). Path analyses revealed that the direct association between CV and PHQ-4 (β = 0.454; p ≤ 0.01) was significantly diminished by cognitive SC (β = − 0.373; p ≤ 0.05). Conclusion Our results suggest that cognitive SC is an individual resilience factor against negative experiences related to CV and that it holds the potential to diminish negative mental health consequences of CV. Further research should explore to what extent an enhancement of cognitive SC can help to prevent anxiety and depression among crime victims.

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The Criminal Victimization–Depression Sequela

Cited by 20 publications

References 53 publications

The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension

The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension

Joint trajectories of victimization and marijuana use and their health consequences among urban African American and Puerto Rican young men

Criminal victimization, cognitive social capital and mental health in an urban region in Germany: a path analysis

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