We agree that the term 'adolescents who engage in sexually inappropriate behaviour' is preferable to 'adolescent sex offender' because of its emphasis on the behaviour rather than the criminality of the behaviour. However, most researchers use the latter term and to be congruent with the literature as well as for parsimony, we use 'adolescent sex offender'.
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