Citation

Wekerle C, Kerig PK. J. Child Adolesc. Trauma 2017; 10(1): 3-8.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s40653-017-0130-7

PMID

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Abstract

Sexual violence is different from non-sexual violence. Sexual violence (SV) taps a broad range of behaviors from cyber-bullying to commercialized sexual exploitation (human trafficking) and carries with it a high stigma burden that contributes to significant under-reporting. SExual violence occurs across all formative years, from infancy to young adulthood. With half of the worlds population under 25 years of age, SV is a priority issue to prevent. Currently, there is a revisiting of the known scope and parameters of SV, broadly defined in terms of intra- and extra-familial. There is an increased call to monotor youth reports on maltreatment in population surveys to provide one piece of the data puzzle for how service systems are working to prevent violence and...

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