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 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.

Violência sexual contra homens no Brasil: subnotificação, prevalência e fatores associados

“…The remaining papers consisted of: four qualitative 56 , two literature reviews 8 , 20 , two intervention studies 61 , 62 and one case study 63 . Among the 53 papers reviewed, 13 were conducted with secondary data 4 , 28 , 30 , 39 . The total number of participants was 2,831,581, of which 1,416,480 were boys or men.…”

“…Among the studies exclusively with boys or men, five of them are with men who have sex with other men 15 , 16 , 26 , 34 , 45 , five on male children and adolescents 39 , 51 , 57 , 58 , 61 , three focus on service patients (mostly health services) 27 , 37 , 63 and two focus on drug users 38 , 50 .…”

“…Only 23 papers present information that identified the aggressor, most of them people known to the victims. Violence perpetrated by the father or stepfather was common in eight studies 22 , 30 , 31 , 39 , 46 , 48 , 58 , 59 . Authors who have not described who the perpetrators are point to known and/or familiar figures 4 , 26 , 27 , 51 , 57 , 65 .…”

“…There are also studies that describe violence committed by intimate partners 8 , 23 , 38 , 50 . It is noteworthy that women appeared in six studies as sexual rapists 28 , 36 , 39 , 46 , 51 , 58 .…”

Violência sexual: análise epidemiológica entre os anos de 2010 a 2018 / Sexual violence: epidemiological analysis between the years 2010 to 2018

“…Os eventuais motivos se devem, além do maior estado de vulnerabilidade desta faixa etária, ao estado de constrangimento, medo, estereótipos, temor a reação dos pais, bem como à reação do agressor. [21][22] Estudo realizado por Jesus et al (2011), apresentou que 3% dos meninos relataram ter sofrido algum tipo de violência sexual, e, destes, apenas 33,3% procuraram ajuda. 23 Em relação à cor autodeclarada, as taxas de violência sexual no estado foram maiores em indivíduos pardos, em ambos os sexos, se comparados a brancos, negros e Brazilian Journal of Health Review, Curitiba, v.4, n.5, p. 22136-22151 sep./oct.…”