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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a common belief that people who perpetrate sexual abuse have a specific “type” of victim. For example, it is often assumed that someone who abuses children only targets children, that perpetrators abuse either boys or girls (but not both), or that abuse occurs only within or only outside the family, suggesting that perpetrators have stable victim preferences based on age, gender, or relationship to the victim. However, more recent research challenges this narrow view.

There is increased research showing that a significant proportion of individuals who perpetrate sexual abuse do not restrict themselves to a single victim category. Instead, they engage in what is referred to as polymorphic or crossover sexual offending – meaning that they have victims across multiple categories, such as:

Different age or developmental groups (prepubescent children, adolescents, and adults)
Different genders (male and female victims)
Different types of relationships (intra-familial and extra-familial victims)

If investigators, clinicians, and communities assume that perpetrators only target one kind of victim, they may fail to recognize risk to others. Victims may not be believed if their experience does not match what is expected based on a perpetrator’s known history.
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A crime of opportunity. [/quote]

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