Child Abuse Victims as Offenders
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Based on the "cycle of violence" hypothesis proposed by Widom (1989a, 1989b), which refers to the phenomenon that child victims of abuse become offenders, many researchers and professionals hold the belief that child abusers were likely to victims of abuse themselves. This assumption certainly has many implications for professionals in the law and enforcement profession, as well as the counseling profession. If a clear relationship between child abusers and their being victimized by child abuse can be established, psychological interventions should be implemented for convicted child abusers to prevent them from repeating their patterns of deviant behavior (Weeks & Widom, 1998). In this paper, research studies conducted on this topic will be briefly described. Furthermore, whether the notion that child abusers were victimized themselves is oversimplified will be examined within the context of these findings. The majority of the research studies on
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