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Received: 27 Mar 2025 | Revised: 27 Apr 2025 | Accepted: 06 May 2025 | Published: 21 May 2025

Abstract

Keywords

childhood victimization | psychopathological risk factors | developmental victimology | sexual offenders | adolescent behaviors | age of onset

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