Abstract

Abstract Conventional approaches to the prevention of sexual assault focus on the victim. This paper presents two hypotheses relating to the development of the behavior of sexual child abuse in males, reviews empirical evidence supporting these hypotheses and projects approaches to the prevention of sexual child abuse based on these hypotheses. The hypotheses are that a large proportion of males who abuse children sexually 1) have been sexually abused themselves as children, and 2) are sexually ignorant and socially immature.

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