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committing sexual violence. Cha
racteristics of female offenders have shown that they tend to be younger than their male counterparts and less likely to have committed acts of rape. Girls are also more likely to have experienced sexual abuse. Victims of very young offenders tend to be girls between the ages of four and seven, who may be victimized by their siblings, friends, or acquaintances. These very young offenders tend to have experienced higher rates of sexual victimization and neglect compared to their adolescent offenders. Many preadolescent sexual offenders have also been found to experi- ence academic and learning difficulties, as well as impaired relationships with their peers. There remains the same problem with classifying preadolescent sexual offenders as there is with adolescent offenders. Some are classified as sexually reactive, sexually ag
