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Content: Whereas those who experience sexual abuse may later become sexually violent, a person may not become a sexual abuser unless he or she has experienced some form of sexual trauma (Bagley, Wood, and Young 1994; Dutton and Hart 1992; Ford and Linney 1995; Prendergast 1991). Children who are victims of neglect are at the highest risk of becoming delinquent, with the highest probability, 1 in 10, in becoming involved in criminal activity, whereas physical abuse victims were reported to have a 9.3 percent chance (1 in 11) of becoming delinquent. Physical abuse victims, though, do engage in more aggressive and violent types of delinquency (Zingraff, Leiter, Johnson, and Myers 1994), and physical abuse lends a unique risk to girls for violent offending, in that physically abused girls are over seven times more likely to commit a violent offense than nonabused girls (Herrera and McCloskey 2001). Herrenkohl, H