Boy sexual victimization: Characteristics of family configuration and of the offender
Abstract The study aims to identify the family profile of boys who were victims of sexual abuse and of their offenders. Intake documents from a health facility in the capital of Brazil, consisting of 35 cases from that institution over a period of 13 years were analyzed. Analysis of quantitative dat...
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| author | Maria Aparecida Penso Maria Inês Gandolfo Conceição Liana Fortunato Costa Amanda Pinheiro Said Lúcia Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Williams |
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| description | Abstract The study aims to identify the family profile of boys who were victims of sexual abuse and of their offenders. Intake documents from a health facility in the capital of Brazil, consisting of 35 cases from that institution over a period of 13 years were analyzed. Analysis of quantitative data with descriptive statistics for the following categories involved: age of family members; relatives living in the same household; education and occupation of family members; who did the victim reside with; victim’s main caretaker; gender and relationship of victim and offender. The families were economically deprived with low educational background, and in lack of community institutional support. As a result, they took protection initiatives by themselves, delegating childcare to immediate or extended relatives, a strategy which increased vulnerability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a302a9c3830419c957d940d736d80422022-12-21T18:11:00ZengUniversidade de BrasíliaPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa1806-344610.1590/0102.3772e35428Boy sexual victimization: Characteristics of family configuration and of the offenderMaria Aparecida PensoMaria Inês Gandolfo ConceiçãoLiana Fortunato CostaAmanda Pinheiro SaidLúcia Cavalcanti de Albuquerque WilliamsAbstract The study aims to identify the family profile of boys who were victims of sexual abuse and of their offenders. Intake documents from a health facility in the capital of Brazil, consisting of 35 cases from that institution over a period of 13 years were analyzed. Analysis of quantitative data with descriptive statistics for the following categories involved: age of family members; relatives living in the same household; education and occupation of family members; who did the victim reside with; victim’s main caretaker; gender and relationship of victim and offender. The families were economically deprived with low educational background, and in lack of community institutional support. As a result, they took protection initiatives by themselves, delegating childcare to immediate or extended relatives, a strategy which increased vulnerability.http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ptp/v35/0102-3772-ptp-35-e35428.pdfsexual abusemale victims of sexual abuseanalysis of intakechild maltreatment |
| spellingShingle | Maria Aparecida Penso Maria Inês Gandolfo Conceição Liana Fortunato Costa Amanda Pinheiro Said Lúcia Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Williams Boy sexual victimization: Characteristics of family configuration and of the offender Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa sexual abuse male victims of sexual abuse analysis of intake child maltreatment |
| title | Boy sexual victimization: Characteristics of family configuration and of the offender |
| title_full | Boy sexual victimization: Characteristics of family configuration and of the offender |
| title_fullStr | Boy sexual victimization: Characteristics of family configuration and of the offender |
| title_full_unstemmed | Boy sexual victimization: Characteristics of family configuration and of the offender |
| title_short | Boy sexual victimization: Characteristics of family configuration and of the offender |
| title_sort | boy sexual victimization characteristics of family configuration and of the offender |
| topic | sexual abuse male victims of sexual abuse analysis of intake child maltreatment |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ptp/v35/0102-3772-ptp-35-e35428.pdf |
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