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Lifetime Victimization and Poly-Victimization in a Sample of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities
- Source :
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 37:2062-2082
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- People with intellectual disabilities appear to be more vulnerable to victimization. However, few studies have assessed victimization in these groups and those that do exist are highly heterogeneous and tend to focus only on specific forms of violence. This study attempts to shed light on the phenomenon of victimization among adults with intellectual disabilities by assessing victimization and poly-victimization throughout their life course. The sample consisted of 260 adults (154 men and 106 women) with an intellectual disability diagnosis, recruited from the Catalan Federation for People with Intellectual Disabilities (DINCAT) in Spain. They ranged in age from 20 to 71 years ( M = 41.69, SD = 12.05). Victimization experiences were assessed by means of an adaptation of the retrospective version of the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ). The results showed that 96.9% of the participants had suffered some kind of victimization throughout their lives. With respect to the types of victimization, the most frequent were common victimization (87.7%), witnessing and indirect victimization (67.3%), victimization by caregivers (59.2%), sexual victimization (35%), and electronic victimization (23.5%). Women and early adults tended to experience higher rates of victimization. The poly-victimized group experienced 13 or more incidents of victimization throughout their lives. This study highlights the elevated rates of lifetime victimization among people with intellectual disabilities. It adds to previous evidence that special protection programs are required to address this issue and emphasizes the need for prevention and intervention measures in this particularly vulnerable group.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
education
Young Adult
Intervention measures
Intellectual Disability
Surveys and Questionnaires
Intellectual disability
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Crime Victims
health care economics and organizations
Applied Psychology
Aged
Retrospective Studies
050901 criminology
05 social sciences
Bullying
social sciences
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
humanities
Clinical Psychology
behavior and behavior mechanisms
Life course approach
Female
0509 other social sciences
Psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15526518 and 08862605
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ab0bc62ce0bcefba72f63955d1fa223