Criminal Victimization

"What if we found that victims have often been offenders before , and vice-versa

Child abuse / neglect is a crime that often times goes unpunished since it is hard to determine whether a child has been abused or not because most children wouldn 't come out and say it either due to a sense of shame , fear of the parent or a fear of ones own peers . As such its victims often carry this unnoticed stigma with them well into adulthood without it ever being addressed emotionally or psychology (Saltsman 1985 . It has

been theorized that individuals in such cases are more likely to become child abusers themselves emulating the pattern of behavior they were taught as children . This seeks to examine the cause behind child abuse /neglect and see if in all cases it leads to the abused becoming an eventual abuser

Reasons behind child abuse / neglect

Child abuse / neglect can stem from numerous factors either the parent parents themselves were not ready for a child and the child is abused neglected in the emotional turmoil that follows , a lack of finances to properly support a family usually leads individuals to take out their frustrations on the nearest object which causes their frustration or the parent / parents have certain psychological problems in the form which manifest into a form of pedophilia resulting in the sexual assault of a minor (Itzin 2001 . In all of these cases it is very rare for the abused children to speak out and complain...