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Demographic factors, such as gender, residential location, family income, father’s job, mother’s job, father’s education and mother’s education, ordinarily play an important part in people’s lives, and in offences against children by their peers. This paper identifies these seven factors, as they are said to influence offences against children by other children. The sample size consists of 1720 students male and female. Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, and path diagrams are used to extract offences against children by their peers from those three factors. Structural Equation Modeling verifies this factor structure and evaluates the influence of predictors on offences towards children by other children. Regression modeling shows that gender, mother’s education, father’s education and family income are the statistical predictors of offences against children by their peers at a 10% level of significance and affect them through all three dimensions. Levels of parental education play are significant for offences against children by their peers. Girls are less liable to victimization than boys, and family income is a significant predictor of offences.
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