David Finkelhor

TL;DR: Findings support the hypothesis that the potent effect of poly-victimization on youth mental health is, in part, due to its damaging influence on core psychosocial resources.

TL;DR: The study found substantially more support for the idea that abuse is associated with personality problems of the caregiver.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined an increase in youth online harassment over the last decade in order to better explore the implications of the trend for prevention initiatives, and found that the increase in online harassment can likely be attributed to changes in how youth are using the Internet, especially a disproportional increase of online communication with friends by girls, providing more opportunity for offline peer conflicts to expand to this environment.

TL;DR: The National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect was a major, government sponsored effort to collect data on reported and unreported child abuse and it used a systematic representative sample methodology and very precisely developed definitions of child abuse.

TL;DR: Over 50% of girls with four or more risk factors suffered a victimization, however, care must be taken not to see in this high vulnerability cause for blaming the victims for their own victimization.