A study develop with one thousand teenagers concludes that 80% fall victim to some kind of violence
Noemí Pereda, tenured lecturer of Victimology at the University of Barcelona, member of the Research Group on Child and Adolescent Victimization (GReVIA) and researcher at the Institute for Research on the Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (IR3C), is the first author of a study published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect that proves that childhood is one of the stages of life with the greatest risk of suffering violence. More than one thousand teenagers aged 12-17 (590 boys and 517 girls) participated in a questionnaire on youth victimization. The study concludes that 83% of them claim to have fallen victim to at least one form of violence over the course of their lives; nearly 70% in the last year.
Noemí Pereda, tenured lecturer of Victimology at the University of Barcelona, member of the Research Group on Child and Adolescent Victimization (GReVIA) and researcher at the Institute for Research on the Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (IR3C), is the first author of a study published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect that proves that childhood is one of the stages of life with the greatest risk of suffering violence. More than one thousand teenagers aged 12-17 (590 boys and 517 girls) participated in a questionnaire on youth victimization. The study concludes that 83% of them claim to have fallen victim to at least one form of violence over the course of their lives; nearly 70% in the last year.