This study sought to extend our understanding of racial differences in childhood maltreatment and its health risks during adolescence and young adulthood. The results presented here with an urban sample of males generally support the national data [1–2], indicating that Blacks have higher prevalence of substantiated maltreatment, compared to Whites. Among those who had been maltreated, we found no racial differences in timing, type, severity, and chronicity. These findings are contrary to prior studies, which have found racial differences in types of childhood maltreatment [2, 12]. These other studies examined racial differences among males and females combined in 2005, whereas we examined differences in maltreatment through 1993 in a community sample of all males.
