A team from the University of Huddersfield will survey the group of children, which will include a number of young offenders, in a bid to shed light on the issue.
It said previous research among serious offenders and children has shown a link between abuse and offending exists, and wants to explore further and identify potential ways of preventing it.
The UK survey is one of five taking place across the world, with the research team carrying out similar-scale exercises in China, Uganda, Jamaica and India.
The project team, co-directed by professor Adele Jones and professor Daniel Boduszek, from the University of Huddersfield and supported by research fellow Dr Dominic Willmott, hope to finish analysing the 50,000 responses by early 2019.
Professor Matt DeLisi, of Iowa State University, whose areas of expertise include the impact of adverse childhood experience on the development of criminality, will also be involved with the project.
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