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Ruud Bullens

Researcher at VU University Amsterdam

Publications -  17
Citations -  934

Ruud Bullens is an academic researcher from VU University Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Sexual abuse. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 17 publications receiving 892 citations. Previous affiliations of Ruud Bullens include University of Amsterdam.

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Disruptions in foster care: A review and meta-analysis

TL;DR: This paper examined risk and protective factors associated with placement breakdown across k ǫ=26 studies of 20,650 children in foster families and found a large combined effect size for behavior problems when analyzed in multivariate models.
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Juvenile sex offenders compared to non-sex offenders. A review of the literature 1995-2005

TL;DR: Although it is likely that sex offenders can be differentiated from nonsex offenders on a number of characteristics, caution is warranted because of methodological differences between studies and small samples size, and studies show thatsex offenders are a heterogeneous group.
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Violent Juvenile Sex Offenders Compared with Violent Juvenile Nonsex Offenders: Explorative Findings From the Pittsburgh Youth Study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the psychosocial characteristics of juvenile sex offenders and non-sex offenders and found that the sex offenders resembled the nonsex violent offenders with respect to nearly all child, family, peer and demographic risk factors.
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Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Group on its Own?

TL;DR: A study was conducted among adjudicated juvenile (sex) offenders that demonstrated that sex offenders differ from non-sex offenders with regard to demographic characteristics, problem behavior, and personality traits.
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Offense related characteristics and psychosexual development of juvenile sex offenders

TL;DR: Serious need for comprehensive diagnostics were found on the domains sexual offense and psychosexual development in juvenile sex offenders, especially in the group of child molesters.