OBJECTIVES: Since the late 1980s, there has been a strong theoretical focus on
psychological and social influences of perpetration of child sexual abuse. This paper …

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The publicity about online “predators” who prey on naive children using trickery and
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Adolescent males who sexually offended against prepubescent children were contrasted
with those who targeted pubescent and postpubescent females. As hypothesized, path …