The large literature on childhood abuse and neglect reinforces the importance of the family as a developmental crucible in the formation of individual propensities to delinquent and conforming conduct (e.g., Cookston, 1999; Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990; Heck & Walsh, 2000; Loeber & Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986; McCord, 1979; Riley & Shaw, 1995; Sampson & Laub, 1993; West & Farrington, 1977). Often, the type of delinquent conduct exhibited is believed to correspond to the type of childhood maltreatment experienced during the early formative years in the family, resulting in ‘‘homotypic continuity’’ (Farley & Barkan, 1998; Farley & Kelly, 2000; Kagan, 1969; Goodman & Fallot, 1998; Messman-Moore & Long, 2000). Social learning theory suggests that childhood maltreatment incurs negative role models and that children may base their future behaviors on the models that they learn to imitate as children. Specific types of childhood maltreatment should therefore produce specific types of delinquency or conduct disorders, i.e., physical abuse leads to childhood aggression. Other analyses, however, suggest that childhood maltreatment is not predictive of specific future conduct disorders, but rather that the effects of maltreatment are more generalized, leading to ‘‘heterotypic continuity’’ in later life (Bennett, Hughes, & Luke, 2000; Brown, Cohen, Johnson & Salzinger, 1998; Kaufman & Widom, 1999; Kagan, 1969). Nowhere is this debate livelier than in the discussion of childhood predictors of female street prostitution and, specifically, the role of incest and sexual abuse in the genesis of prostitution involvement (Brannigan & Fleischman, 1989; Lowman, 1991). In the analysis here, we report the results of a study of problematic behaviors exhibited by a sample of prostitute females and a nonprostitute comparison group. Specifically, we investigate the role