Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents: Implicit Theory
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https://doi.org/10.20435/pssa.v14i4.1811Keywords:
sexual abuse, sex offenses, harassment, violence against children and adolescents, implicit theories, sex offenderAbstract
The aim of this text is to identify the implicit theories about masculinity and the child/adolescent victim, in the contents of speeches from adult male sexual offenders. In sexual violence, the sexual offender assumes properties of their victims based on their own mental representations. This is a documental research carried out in an institution that treats adult sexual offenders, based on the records of two group interventions that took place in 2018 and 2019. The results were organized and discussed in topics that emphasized: the expression of masculinity and the relationship with the woman and the child/adolescent. It sought to give visibility to the construction of beliefs and impositions of thought that are produced in social and family life, and that give greater power and domination to man. These meanings indicate the male gender as the center of relationships, and the female gender submitted and dominated.
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