"The sexual abusers of children are highly dissimilar in terms of personal characteristics, life experiences, and criminal histories" (doc1). However, there are some very general guidelines to their characteristics including an offender's sexual focus, victimization as children, social competence, personality and developmental influences. There are two components of sexual focus in child molesters. One component is the intensity of pedophilic interest. This focuses on how much an offender views a child in a sexual manner. The other component focus's on how an offender views only children as sexual objects. These two focuses differ because where the first doesn't count out the idea that the offender still has interest in adult relationships, the second focus's on the exclusivity of preference to children. Although it has not been proven, studies show that there may be a link that suggests that an offender may be affected by his own sexual victimization as a child. "Tests of the recapitulation theory on a sample of 131 rapists and child molesters revealed that child molesters who committed their first assault when they were 14 or younger were sexually victimized at a younger age than offenders who committed their first assault in adulthood; they also experienced more severe sexual abuse than offenders with adult onset of sexual aggression" (doc1). This may just be a small factor of what causes a person to be a child sexual abuser. There is no solid evidence that links childhood victimization to a person becoming a child molester at a later age. There must be many other factors for this to even be considered as an explanation. One of these factors includes the way a person acts towards other situations. "Research shows that child molesters who committed their first sexual offense in adolescence had histories of being disruptive in school (verbally or physically assaulting peers and teachers), showed high levels of juvenile antisocial behavior, and, as adults, manifested a greater degree of nonsexual aggression " (doc1).