Resources
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| Updated Trends in Child Maltreatment, 2024 New national data have been released for 2024, showing a 3% decline in the rate of all substantiated child abuse compared to 2023. Sexual abuse…
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2026 | Trends In Child Victimization | Bulletin |
| Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Findings from a National Survey Finkelhor, D., Turner, H., Colburn, D., & Walsh, W. (2023). Online child sexual exploitation and abuse: Findings from a National Survey. Durham,…
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2023 | Technology/Internet Victimization | Bulletin |
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2023 | Prevention, Technology/Internet Victimization | Video |
| 2016 International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference Program Book 2016 International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference program book
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2016 | Program Book | |
| 2018 International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference Program Book 2018 International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference program book
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2018 | Program Book | |
| 2026 VPRC Program Book Violence Prevention Research Conference 2026 program book
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2026 | Program Book | |
Mitchell, K.J. & Banyard, V. (2026). Beyond risk: Resilience portfolios and youth mental health. BMC Public Health.
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2026 | General Child Victimization | Paper |
Gewirtz-Meydan, A., Mitchell, K. J., Jones, L. M., Turner, H. A., & Finkelhor, D. (2025). Moderators of Mental Health Outcomes Following…
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2026 | Technology/Internet Victimization | Paper |
Colburn, D. & Mitchell, K.J., Taylor, B. (2026). Syndemic pathways linking juvenile delinquency, structural vulnerability, and mental health:…
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2026 | Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Vicarious Trauma | Paper |
Mitchell, KJ, O’Brien, J, Gewirtz-Meydan, A, Jones, LM, Colburn, D (2026). Mapping help needs among sexual and gender minority youth at risk for…
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2026 | Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Sexual and Gender Minority Youth | Paper |
Mitchell, K. J., O’Brien, J., Gewirtz-Meydan, A., Colburn, D., & Jones, L. M. (2026). A brief screener to identify youth at risk for commercial…
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2026 | Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Sexual and Gender Minority Youth | Paper |
Pearson, Catherine. "Many Teens Face Strong Peer Pressure to Share Sexual Images, Study Finds." The New York Times. 17 March 2026. https…
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2026 | Technology/Internet Victimization | News |
Finkelhor, D., Cavanaugh, C., Turner, H., Colburn, D., Sutton, S., & Mathews, B. (2024). When Is Online Sexual Solicitation of a Minor Considered…
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2024 | Technology/Internet Victimization | Paper |
| Youth-Produced Images Are the Majority of Child Sexual Abuse Materials: Categories of Youth and Adult Perpetrators From a Victim Based Study Finkelhor, D., Colburn, D., Gewirtz-Meydan, A., O’Brien, J. E., Jones, L. M., Turner, H. A., & Mitchell, K. J. (2026). Youth-Produced Images Are…
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2026 | Technology/Internet Victimization | Paper |
| Trends and New Directions in the Law Enforcement Response to the Sex Trafficking of Minors Trends and New Directions in the Law Enforcement Response to the Sex Trafficking of Minors
NIJ Award 2020-MU-CX-0041
Principal Investigator (PI…
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2025 | Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Sexual Abuse, Technology/Internet Victimization | Report |
| Trends in Arrests and Investigative Techniques of Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Crimes: The 4th National Juvenile Online Victimization Study Trends in Arrests and Investigative Techniques of Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Crimes: The 4th National Juvenile Online…
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2025 | Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Sexual Abuse, Technology/Internet Victimization | Report |
Prior, A., O’Brien, J. E., Cattarin, E., Murphy, M., Zwerling Kahn, G., & Mitchell, K. J. (2025). “I would say almost every single case has some…
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2025 | Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Technology/Internet Victimization | Paper |
| Child Maltreatment in Youth-Serving Organizations: A Scoping Review Finkelhor, D., Gast, L., Cavanaugh, C., Sutton, S., Jones, L. M., & Turner, H. (2025). Child Maltreatment in Youth-Serving Organizations: A…
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2025 | General Child Victimization | Paper |
| Building the Evidence on Preventing Youth Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Nonrandomized, Quasi-experimental Evaluation of the Not a Number Trafficking Prevention Program Jones, L. M., O’Brien, J. E., & Graham, S. E. Building the Evidence on Preventing Youth Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Nonrandomized, Quasi-…
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2025 | Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Evaluation | Paper |
| Prevalence of exposure to someone else’s firearm violence, threats, and risky behavior among a national sample of young people in the United States Mitchell KJ, Banyard V, Taylor BG, Mumford EA, Liu W and Turner HA (2025) Prevalence of exposure to someone else’s firearm violence, threats, and…
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2025 | Firearm Violence | Paper |
