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Risk Factors for Sexual Victimization of Women

Results from a Prospective Study

Jane A. Siegel

Rutgers University-Camden

Linda M. Williams

Wellesley College

Using data drawn from a prospective study of 206 urban, predominantly low-income, African American women, sexually victimized before they turned 13 in the early 1970s, and a matched comparison group, this article explores whether child sexual abuse was a risk factor for revictimization and examines the role of other factors in the risk of victimization. Child sexual abuse before the age of 13 was not by itself a risk factor for adult victimization, but those who were also victimized as adolescents were at much greater risk of adult sexual victimization than other women. Additional risk factors included measures of sexual behavior and alcohol problems.

Key Words: African American women • risk factors • sexual victimization

Violence Against Women, Vol. 9, No. 8, 902-930 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801203255130
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