ABSTRACT
Over the years, several attempts have been made to explain child molestation. Finkelhor’s (1984; Finkelhor & Araji, 1986) Precondition Model was the first multifactorial explanation of child sexual abuse and—probably due to its simplicity—has been one of the most popular and cited models of child sexual abuse (Ward, Polaschek, & Beech, 2006). The model rests on four preconditions that are temporally organized and that may interact with each other.
