Scand J Child Adolesc Psychiatr Psychol
January 2023
Background: Children with disabilities are at heightened risk of sexual violence compared to non-disabled peers.
Objective: We aimed to examine the associations between ten childhood disabilities and sexual victimization.
Methods: Data were drawn from the Danish Psychiatric Case Register, the Criminal Register, and other population-based registers.
Children with disabilities are at heightened risk of violence compared to their non-disabled peers. However, extant research suffers from several limitations, focusing on child abuse and one or few types of disability, ignoring conventional violent crimes. The aim was to assess 10 disabilities and to examine whether different disabilities vary in their risk of criminal victimization.
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