Sexually Aggressive Children: Coming to Understand Them

Archives of Sexual Behavior,  August, 2004  by Karen L. Siegel

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Sexually Aggressive Children: Coming to Understand Them. By Sharon K. Araji. Sage, Thousand Oaks, California, 1997, 245 pp., $43.95.

This is an engaging book on a very troubling subject that has been, hitherto, frequently overlooked just because the topic is so emotionally provocative. Araji's volume summarizes the past 15 years of clinical research and treatment of children (defined as under the age of 12 years) with sexually aggressive behavior problems. In her comprehensive overview of this nascent research field, she compassionately weaves and integrates definitions, statistical analyses, social demographics, and psychological characteristics of this too-often neglected population, theories of ...