Sexual Abuse
Some parents will exploit their children for their own benefit. Such as forcing them to be strippers or prostitutes. |
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Sexual abuse has also been known to take place in daycare centers. |
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Many grade schools are now routinely training young children to resist and report inappropriate advances of adults. |
Other Forms of Abuse
Two of the surest predictors of a child likely to commit a crime are a child who has previously committed a crime and a child who has been victimized by child abuse or neglect. |
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Parental encouragement of delinquency is a problem sometimes encountered by juveniles who come from families already engaged in criminal activities. |
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Prostitutes, for example, sometimes encourage their daughters to learn their work. |
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Children who had been abused or neglected were more likely to be arrested as juveniles, as adults, and for a violent crime. |