Where does victimization occur?
• Victimization can occur anywhere; however, it usually happens in isolated locations where a person with disabilities has little or no control of the environment (Sobsey and Mansell 1994), and the setting is away from the view of law enforcement (Verdugo and Mermejo 1997). • Institutional settings are risk locations for persons with disabilities because multiple episodes of physical and sexual violence, emotional abuse, or neglect, or violence may be committed against them by staff or other residents and yet go undetected or unreported (Sobsey and Mansell 1994; Brown and Turk 1994; Turk and Brown 1993). Who commits acts of victimization? • More men than women, either as intimate partners or as health care workers (Brown and Turk 1994; Marley and Buila 2001), are reported to commit acts of physical violence, sexual violence, emotional abuse, or neglect against persons with disabilities. • Family members have been reported to commit crimes of victimization while caring for a relative wi
