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40 Criminology 359 (2002)
Developmental Issues in the Impact of Child Maltreatment on Later Delinquency and Drug Use

handle is hein.journals/crim40 and id is 369 raw text is: DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES IN THE IMPACT OF CHILD MALTREATMENT ON LATER DELINQUENCY AND DRUG USE* TIMOTHY 0. IRELAND Niagara University CAROLYN A. SMITH TERENCE P. THORNBERRY University at Albany, SUNY Developmental psychopathology emphasizes the impact that early childhood maltreatment has on adolescent and early adult develop- ment. The life-course perspective, however, emphasizes more proximal events-adolescent maltreatment, for example-as developmentally disruptive. Prior research suggests that childhood maltreatment is a risk factor for adolescent delinquency and drug use. However, the results appear to depend on a loose definition of childhood. This study utilizes a four-category maltreatment classification-never, childhood- only, adolescence-only, and persistent-to re-examine the maltreat- ment-delinquency relationship. Using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study, we find no relationship between childhood-only maltreatment and adolescent delinquency or drug use; yet, we do find a consistent impact of adolescence-only and persistent maltreatment on these outcomes. KEYWORDS: Childhood maltreatment, adolescent maltreatment, delin- quency and drug use, developmental criminology, chronic offending. The possibility that childhood maltreatment-defined as a broad spec- trum of aberrant behaviors that are harmful to children, including physi- cal, sexual, neglect and emotional kinds of maltreatment (Siegel, 1993:xi)-places an individual at increased risk for problem behaviors dur- ing adolescence has received a good deal of scholarly attention in recent * This article was prepared under Grant 86-JN-CX-0007 (S-3) from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice; Grant 5 R01 DA05512-02 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse; and grant SBR09123299 from the National Science Foundation. Work on this project was also aided by grants to the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany from NICHD (P30 HD32041) and NSF (SBR-9512290). Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the funding agencies. CRIMINOLOGY VOLUME 40 NUMBER 2 2002

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