Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities

Joan Petersilia

203 citations0/0 files storedCriminal Justice and Behavior

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies Criminal Justice and Penology Crime Patterns and Interventions

Abstract

Rates of violence and abuse perpetrated on people with developmental disabilities (e.g., mental retardation, autism) appear significantly higher than for people without these disabilities. Few of these crimes get reported to police, and even fewer are prosecuted because officials hesitate to pursue cases that rely onthe testimony of a personwith a developmental disability. The author offers several conceptual models to explain their differential victimization risk, including routine activities theory, dependency-stress model, cultural stereotyping, and victim-learned compliance. This article summarizes the research evidence on crimes against children and adults with developmental disabilities. It is divided into four sections. The first section describes the nature and extent of crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities. The second reviews the literature onrisk factors associated with their victimization. The third discusses the manner in which justice agencies respond to these crimes. The final section enumerates what research and policy initiatives might address the problem.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 203 citations exist upstream.

References

1987A sourcebook on child sexual abuse 1987A Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse 1994Violence and abuse in the lives of people with disabilities : the end of silent acceptance?1991Patterns of sexual abuse and assault 1948The Criminal and His Victim 1997Prevalence of abuse of women with physical disabilities

Cited by

2005Crime Victimization in Adults With Severe Mental Illness 2012National prevalence rates of bully victimization among students with disabilities in the United States.2006Prevalence of maltreatment of people with intellectual disabilities: A review of recently published research 2014Policing Human Trafficking 2020The COVID-19 pandemic, stress, and trauma in the disability community: A call to action.2014Sexual abuse involving children with an intellectual disability (ID): A narrative review 2020Interpersonal violence against people with disabilities: Additional concerns and considerations in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.