Table 1.

Prevalence of child maltreatment and criminal recidivism rates separately for male and female juvenile offenders

	Male juvenile offenders	Female juvenile offenders	χ 2 (1)
	(n = 10,111)	(n = 3502)
Victim of sexual abuse	8.0 %	33.2 %	1336.78*
Victim of physical abuse	23.6 %	36.0 %	203.16*
Victim of neglect	20.8 %	29.4 %	108.77*
General criminal recidivism	46.6 %	34.0 %	167.97*
Violent felony recidivism	8.5 %	3.2 %	110.57*

Note: ^* p < .001