Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-02-01T14:25:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 leandrooliveirasilva.pdf: 1438134 bytes, checksum: fbdd2b4998dac013c963cc408e599d7d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-02-01T15:50:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 leandrooliveirasilva.pdf: 1438134 bytes, checksum: fbdd2b4998dac013c963cc408e599d7d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-01T15:50:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 leandrooliveirasilva.pdf: 1438134 bytes, checksum: fbdd2b4998dac013c963cc408e599d7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-19 / O fenômeno da “pedofilia” tem sido objeto de acirradas controvérsias na arena pública das reivindicações e vem, rotineiramente, alcançando cada vez mais espaço nos meios de comunicação de massa (mídia), no mundo dos poderes e saberes, no seio da sociedade em geral, despertando, na maioria esmagadora das pessoas, sentimentos de repulsa, ódio e vingança em relação aos chamados “pedófilos”, tendo em vista o alvo da prática sexual: crianças e adolescentes. O escopo desta pesquisa não é fazer uma avaliação sobre aquilo que é moralmente certo ou errado em matéria de “pedofilia”, mas, sob a perspectiva do referencial teórico adotado, o construcionismo social, analisar de que maneira se deu, especificamente no caso brasileiro, a passagem da “pedofilia” enquanto problema social para a “pedofilia” como um problema público, constituindo a Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito da Pedofilia, instalada e conduzida por uma comissão de senadores brasileiros entre os anos de 2008 e 2010, o ponto alto desta viragem, podendo ser compreendida como o mecanismo de grande audiência que revestiu o problema da “pedofilia” com roupagens, significados e formas de verdade no cenário brasileiro. / The phenomenon of “pedophilia” has been subject to tough controversies in the public arena of claims and has been continuously achieving a bigger space in mass communication means (media), in the world of knowledge and power and within society in general. It awakens, in the crushing majority of people, feelings of repulse, hate and vengeance in regards to the so-called “pedophiles”, considering their object of sexual practice: children and teenagers. The scope of this research is not to evaluate what is morally right or wrong regarding “pedophilia”, but to analyze, under the perspective of the chosen theoretic referential, the social constructionism, how the passage of “pedophilia” from social problem to public problem happened, specifically in the Brazilian context, constituting the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry of Pedophilia, installed and conducted by a commission of Brazilian senators through the years of 2008 and 2010, the high point of this passage, possibly being comprehended as the mechanism of great audience which gave the problem of “pedophilia” its true meanings and forms in the Brazilian setting.

A pedofilia é um tema complexo e multifacetado, que exige abordagem interdisciplinar. No que tange às ciências jurídicas, uma das questões mais importantes a serem enfrentadas diz respeito à adequação da resposta penal dada aos pedófilos condenados pela Justiça criminal brasileira. O objetivo geral da presente pesquisa é verificar como a resposta penal dada aos pedófilos judicialmente condenados pode ser mais adequada à luz do atual estado de arte da clínica. Para que o escopo principal fosse alcançado, foram formulados três objetivos específicos, quais sejam, (I) identificar os aspectos clínicos da pedofilia que são relevantes para a compreensão do fenômeno pelos operadores do Direito e que permitem uma abordagem interdisciplinar; (II) enumerar os aspectos éticos e os pressupostos desejáveis das medidas terapêuticas e das consequências jurídicas da condenação criminal dos pedófilos; e, (III) averiguar, à luz de medidas alternativas e eticamente defensáveis, novas possibilidades de resposta penal para os pedófilos judicialmente condenados. Todas as questões permitiram também a reflexão sobre a adequação e a pertinência das atuais propostas legislativas em trâmite no Congresso Nacional acerca da matéria. A abordagem não se restringe à dogmática jurídica e estabelece elos com outras áreas do conhecimento humano, notadamente com a Medicina Forense, com a Psiquiatria Forense e com a Psicologia Jurídica. Esta pesquisa pretende contribuir para o debate jurídico-penal acerca da pertinência ou não da implementação de medidas terapêuticas obrigatórias aos pedófilos judicialmente condenados, bem como oferecer subsídios para a proposição de um novo paradigma à prática forense no tocante às consequências jurídicas decorrentes da condenação criminal de pessoas com transtorno pedofílico. / Pedophilia is a complex and multifaceted subject that requires an interdisciplinary approach. Regarding the juridical sciences, one of the most important issues to be faced concerns the adequacy of the criminal response given to convicted pedophiles by the Brazilian criminal justice. The general aim of this research is to verify how the criminal response given to convicted pedophiles may be more appropriate in the light of the current state of the clinic art. For the main purpose to be reached, three specific aims were formulated: (I) to identify the clinical aspects of pedophilia that are relevant to understanding the phenomenon by the Law operators and that allow an interdisciplinary approach; (II) to enumerate the ethical aspects and the desirable presuppositions of the therapeutic measures and the juridical consequences of criminal conviction of pedophiles; and (III) to examine, in the light of alternative and ethically defensible measures, new possibilities of criminal response for convicted pedophiles. All issues also allowed the reflection on the appropriateness and aptness of the current legislative proposals in course at the National Congress on the subject. The approach is not limited to law doctrine and establishes links with other areas of the human knowledge, especially with the Forensic Medicine, Forensic Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology. This research intends to contribute to the criminal legal debate about the aptness or not of the implementation of mandatory therapeutic measures to convicted pedophiles, as well as to offer subsidies for the proposal of a new paradigm to forensic practice with regard to the juridical consequences of the criminal condemnation of people with pedophilic disorder.

The present study focuses on the caring of patients who have sexually abused children. To do research in a field that has been considered taboo has not been without problems. The conclusive factor for the decision to carry out the research was the fascinating and interesting paradox that, in spite of the caregivers having a mandate from the judicial system to do care for these patients, they do not understand how this care is to be given. The understanding of what caring for these patients can entail is based on the perspectives of the lifeworld of both the patients and the caregivers. The theoretical perspective in this dissertation is that of the caring sciences while the epistemological framework is phenomenology. Research data consist of qualitative interviews. The aim of the first study is to describe the patients’ suffering, and the aim of the second study is to describe the caregivers’ experiences of caring for these patients. The essential meaning of the suffering felt by the patients is described in terms of the patients’ acknowledgement and then betrayal of their yearning to be part of a close human fellowship. The meaning structure of “caring”, can be understood as being lost in an obscure and unknown landscape. It challenges the caregivers and occasionally arouses strongly unpleasant but also strongly threatening feelings. However when the caregivers gain clarity on how to care they are able to find their caring courage and hope, even for these patients. The findings thus show that caring for patients who themselves do not see any opportunity of taking a place among other adults is a great challenge. The study also shows that the support that is needed to be successful in caring for these patients is a caring culture that can permeate both patients and caregivers. These patients, whose criminal acts appear to be bizarre and strange, need to learn to be able to bear their suffering without losing their humanity. The philosophical intermediate chapter shows that it is the body image of the patients that prevents them from becoming whole, i.e. existing fully, by it playing the existential drama that leads to sexual abuse. It appears from this dissertation that in order for caring to be able to relieve the suffering felt by these patients, and thus prevent them from further abuse of children, then it is important as a caregiver to be able to allow the patients just to “be”. The research also shows that in order for caregivers to be able to understand what they receive from the patients they need support from both caring science and existential reflections. Such methods can help to clarify caring and to give possibilities for a freer and more creative thinking. Encountering and understanding different lifeworlds is necessary in order to give care based on a caring perspective. The patient group in the present study have been able to demonstrate this in a clearer way than has previously been done.

Scholarship on the cultural status of the child in America has taken diverse and fruitful forms, yet there exists a significant ellipsis within theories of filmic spectatorship regarding cinematic children. This study engages the child figure's relation to the cinematic apparatus and analyzes spectator responses to the child's presentation as a desiring subject and desired object. Within contemporary American culture, the child figure generates at once a mise-en-scène of desire and a mise-en-abime of potential stigmatization, self-abjection and shame. The vexed relation to the image of the child that characterizes the contemporary adult citizen and, more pointedly, the adult spectator, is a symptom of the contradictory discourses of childhood at play in contemporary American media and within its political bodies. The Columbine shootings, the murder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, the Catholic Church scandals, many well-publicized child abductions, and countless occurrences over the past decade have produced a climate of moral panic over children's endangerment. Yet, more than ever, the eroticization of children's bodies has inundated cinematic and other media productions, generating anxieties within the adult spectator concerning the propriety of gazing at children. Juvenile desires suggests that the dissonances produced by the contradictory signposts of moral panic and sexual objectification have too often given rise to a homophobically polarizing model of the adult spectator: one the one hand, the ostensibly heterosexual spectator whose relation to the child image is aesthetically distanced, moral, and nostalgic; and on the other, a perverse, likely homosexual spectator whose relation is libidinal, regressive, and genitally oriented. As a theoretical intervention and a reception study, this dissertation examines the term pedophilia as one both culturally over-determined and critically under-investigated. The deployment of the term pedophilia has the rhetorical effect of reducing the complex relations sustained among adult spectators and children to a space of inarticulate abjection or criminality. The dissertation proposes that a deconstructive queer theory can unsettle the recalcitrant association of pedophilia with homosexual pathology, and thereby afford a complex and nuanced account of the roles cinematic children play in generating visual and narrative pleasure across gendered and sexually oriented subject positions. / text

Les violences sexuelles perpétrées sur les enfants conduisent de plus en plus d’hommes en prison. Les interventions institutionnelles sur ces questions rappellent fortement l’indignité qui frappe ces individus-là : lourdeur des peines prononcées, surveillance et rétention de sûreté, par exemple. À partir de données issues d’une recherche empirique, j’analyse comment s’organise la société contemporaine par rapport à ce type de comportement. Le travail de terrain se déroule principalement par entretiens. D’abord avec des détenus condamnés pour ces faits. Puis avec des agents de détention (psychologues, psychiatres, conseillers d’insertion et de probation, surveillants, et juge de l’application des peines). Enfin avec des agents chargés de la prévention et de la répression : des gendarmes spécialisés sur les auditions de mineurs victimes (brigade de prévention) et des gendarmes enquêteurs spécialisés sur la traque de « pédophiles » sur Internet (brigade territoriale et de recherche). L’analyse des discours recueillis permet d’identifier les processus qui co-construisent la pluralité des points de vue. Et de comprendre comment les rapports de force se constituent autour de la question des comportements de violence sexuelle sur les enfants aujourd’hui. Aux résultats, il apparaît une lutte des représentations entre les différents agents rencontrés et les condamnés autour de la figure du « pédophile ». Les analyses de ces représentations croisées permettent d’expliquer, notamment, dans quelle mesure la force des dispositifs de prise en charge des condamnés affecte leurs capacités d’agir et déclenche, chez eux, une aspiration profonde à entrer dans l’espace du légitime et du « normal ». / Sexual violence on children lead more and more men in prison. Institutional responses to these questions are strongly reminiscent of the indignity that affects those people: heaviness of the sentences, surveillance and preventive detention for example. Based on data from an empirical research, I wish to understand how modern society is organized in relation to such behavior. The field work mainly takes place through interviews. First with prisoners convicted for those facts.And then with detention officers (psychologists, psychiatrists, councilors of rehabilitation and probation, supervisors, judge of the sanctions application). Finally with agents responsible of repression: specialized Gendarmes on the hearings of juvenile victims (prevention squad) and specialized investigators Gendarmes on the hunt of "pedophiles" on the Internet (Territorial and Research Brigade).The analysis of obtained speeches allows to identify the processes that co-construct the plurality of viewpoints. And to understand how power relations are constituted around the question of sexual violence behaviors on children today. To the results, it appears a struggle between different representations of agents met and the convicted around the profile of "pedophile".The analyzes of these mutual perceptions permits to explain, in particular, how the strength of the devices support of the condemned affects their ability to act and initiates in them, a deep desire to enter the space of legitimate and the "normal".

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:25:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3896.pdf: 1405384 bytes, checksum: 6ac6324f39658e851fc53c4fca144e21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-30 / The aim of this master's research is to understand the contemporary discourses on the subject of child sexual abuse. Building on the conceptual assumptions of Discourse Analysis, especially those developed by the French linguist Dominique Maingueneau, we try to understand the Discursive Formation constitution through texts of different genres and media. With the theoretical framework of the French linguist, was possible to follow some of the theoretical and methodological paths that led us to develop the desired study. Among these contributions, it is the concept of Constitutional Discourse, as it was the one in which self-legitimation and others ways of legitimation among discourses occur in the position by displacement and registration of their speakers in their act of stating this type of discourse. Besides, we mobilized the notion of Topic Discourse as one that can not give yourself a purpose of validation, constantly used in another discourses in order to legitimize itself, including the constituents. But the Non- Topic Discourse (Atopic) is the discourse without place, something on the order of the Paratopy (which belongs to the social space, but denies it), in which the production and circulation tend to be most often impassable. Although there is similarity in the way of belonging, it seems that, for this author, is more likely to find the Topic and Paratopic Discourses together on one side and the Non-Topic (Atopic) Discourse into another, as if we erased the existence of these discourses was made it impossible inside the first textuality discursive with the other two. Equipped with these concepts, we develop a first time reading of the corpus, in which we try to find the types of discourses marks in the texts that comprise it. From this methodological procedure, we selected the corpus in question some texts from the years 2002 to 2008, which was composed mostly as to what Maingueneau identifies as a Topics Discourses, and in this corpus we try to find regularities through which the discourses and Non-Topic (Atopic) constituents could subscribe to this. The recovery process of the Component Discourse by Topic Discourse could then be through the citation of voices in positions of authority. It was also possible to note that the Non-Topic (Atopic) Discourse even being denied as a discourse , can be reflected in the Topic Discourse and to give their brands through the images. So, to answer these hypotheses, from a discursive look, constituted the focus of this dissertation. / Esta pesquisa de mestrado tem como objetivo compreender os discursos contemporâneos formados acerca da temática do abuso sexual infantil. Partindo dos pressupostos conceituais da Análise do Discurso, sobretudo os elaborados pelo linguista francês Dominique Maingueneau, buscamos compreender a constituição das Formações Discursivas por meio de textos de diferentes gêneros e suportes. Com os aportes teóricos do linguista francês, nós pudemos seguir alguns dos caminhos teórico- -metodológicos que nos conduziram a desenvolver o pretendido estudo. Entre esses aportes, encontra-se o conceito de Discurso Constituinte, como aquele em que autolegitimação e a heterolegitimação no interdiscurso se dão pelo posicionamento, deslocamento e inscrição de seus locutores em seu ato de enunciar nesse tipo de discurso. Além disso, mobilizamos a noção de Discurso Tópico como aquele que não consegue dar a si mesmo um efeito de validação, recorrendo constantemente a outros discursos para poder se legitimar, inclusive ao constituintes. Já o Discurso Atópico é o discurso sem lugar, algo da ordem paratópica (que pertence ao espaço social, mas o nega), em que a produção e a circulação tendem na maioria das vezes serem inter ditadas. Ainda que exista semelhança no modo de pertencimento, parece-nos que, para este autor, é mais provável encontrar os discursos tópico e paratópico juntos de um lado e o discurso atópico em um outro, como se a existência apagada destes discursos impossibilitasse a intertextualidade discursiva do primeiro com os outros dois. Tendo em mãos esses conceitos, procuramos desenvolver um primeiro momento de leitura do corpus, no qual tentamos encontrar marcas dos tipos de discursos nos textos que o compõem. A partir desse procedimento metodológico, selecionamos do corpus em questão alguns textos dos anos de 2002 a 2008, compostos na sua maioria ao que Maingueneau determinada como Discursos Tópicos, e procuramos encontrar por meio de quais regularidades os discursos constituintes e atópicos poderiam inscrever-se neste. O processo de recuperação do discurso constituinte (paratópico) pelo discurso tópico poderia, então, acontecer por meio da citação de vozes que ocupam lugares de autoridade. Também foi possível notar que o discurso atópico, mesmo sendo um discurso negado, pode se refletir no discurso tópico e suas marcas se dão por meio das imagens. Portanto, responder a essas hipóteses, a partir de um olhar discursivo, constituiu-se o enfoque desta dissertação.

A pedofilia é um tema complexo e multifacetado, que exige abordagem interdisciplinar. No que tange às ciências jurídicas, uma das questões mais importantes a serem enfrentadas diz respeito à adequação da resposta penal dada aos pedófilos condenados pela Justiça criminal brasileira. O objetivo geral da presente pesquisa é verificar como a resposta penal dada aos pedófilos judicialmente condenados pode ser mais adequada à luz do atual estado de arte da clínica. Para que o escopo principal fosse alcançado, foram formulados três objetivos específicos, quais sejam, (I) identificar os aspectos clínicos da pedofilia que são relevantes para a compreensão do fenômeno pelos operadores do Direito e que permitem uma abordagem interdisciplinar; (II) enumerar os aspectos éticos e os pressupostos desejáveis das medidas terapêuticas e das consequências jurídicas da condenação criminal dos pedófilos; e, (III) averiguar, à luz de medidas alternativas e eticamente defensáveis, novas possibilidades de resposta penal para os pedófilos judicialmente condenados. Todas as questões permitiram também a reflexão sobre a adequação e a pertinência das atuais propostas legislativas em trâmite no Congresso Nacional acerca da matéria. A abordagem não se restringe à dogmática jurídica e estabelece elos com outras áreas do conhecimento humano, notadamente com a Medicina Forense, com a Psiquiatria Forense e com a Psicologia Jurídica. Esta pesquisa pretende contribuir para o debate jurídico-penal acerca da pertinência ou não da implementação de medidas terapêuticas obrigatórias aos pedófilos judicialmente condenados, bem como oferecer subsídios para a proposição de um novo paradigma à prática forense no tocante às consequências jurídicas decorrentes da condenação criminal de pessoas com transtorno pedofílico. / Pedophilia is a complex and multifaceted subject that requires an interdisciplinary approach. Regarding the juridical sciences, one of the most important issues to be faced concerns the adequacy of the criminal response given to convicted pedophiles by the Brazilian criminal justice. The general aim of this research is to verify how the criminal response given to convicted pedophiles may be more appropriate in the light of the current state of the clinic art. For the main purpose to be reached, three specific aims were formulated: (I) to identify the clinical aspects of pedophilia that are relevant to understanding the phenomenon by the Law operators and that allow an interdisciplinary approach; (II) to enumerate the ethical aspects and the desirable presuppositions of the therapeutic measures and the juridical consequences of criminal conviction of pedophiles; and (III) to examine, in the light of alternative and ethically defensible measures, new possibilities of criminal response for convicted pedophiles. All issues also allowed the reflection on the appropriateness and aptness of the current legislative proposals in course at the National Congress on the subject. The approach is not limited to law doctrine and establishes links with other areas of the human knowledge, especially with the Forensic Medicine, Forensic Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology. This research intends to contribute to the criminal legal debate about the aptness or not of the implementation of mandatory therapeutic measures to convicted pedophiles, as well as to offer subsidies for the proposal of a new paradigm to forensic practice with regard to the juridical consequences of the criminal condemnation of people with pedophilic disorder.

Sohlmér, A. ”Långt ifrån alla pedofiler är förövare. Och varför det är viktigt att veta. Examensarbete i Socialt arbete 15 högskolepoäng. Malmö högskola: Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle, institutionen för Socialt arbete, 2013.Syftet med studien är att ge en ökad kunskap kring pedofili och komplexiteten kring det för att professionella ska kunna ge ett bättre bemötande mot personer med pedofil läggning. I studien besvaras frågan hur pedofili beskrivs i såväl litteratur, av professionella samt i sociala medier och nyhetsmedia. Studien belyser även det hat och den skam som är starkt förknippat med pedofili. Studiens viktigaste resultat är att nyhetsmedia och sociala mediers bild av pedofiler som likställda med förövare av sexuella övergrepp på barn inte stämmer överens med vad litteratur och professionella säger. Pedofiler begår inte alltid sexuella övergrepp och de som begår sexuella övergrepp är inte alltid pedofiler. Det är viktigt att som professionell kunna skilja på person och handling. Vidare visar studiens resultat att pedofili är en komplex sexuellt avvikande läggning som kräver flera olika perspektiv för att förklaras och förstås. / Sohlmér, A. An attempt to understand pedophilia. And why it’s important. Degree project in Social Work 15 credit points. Malmö University: Faculty of health and society, Department of Social Work, 2013.The purpose of this study is to provide an increased knowledge about pedophilia and the complexity around it so that professionals will be able to give better treatment to people with a pedophile orientation. The study answers the question of how pedophilia is described in both the literature, by professionals as well as social media and news media. The study also highlights the hatred and shame that is strongly associated with pedophilia. The study's main findings is that news media and social medias image of pedophiles as equivalent to perpetrators of child sexual abuse is not consistent with what the literature and the professionals say. Pedophiles do not always commit sexual abuse and those who commit sexual abuse are not always pedophiles. It is important as a professional to distinguish between person and action. Further, the results of the study show that pedophilia is a complex sexually deviant preference that requires multiple perspectives to be explained and understood.

Are sentences given for sexual interference appropriate ? It is the central question of this essay. To find the answer, we analyzed the medical and the legal discourses on pedophilia and child molestation. This review has enabled us to determined how the medical discourse affects the legal discourse in this matter. This essay presents an analysis of the factors used in sentencing for sexual interference against a person of less than 16 years old and of the sentences given to those who committed those type of offenses, from the perspective of both criminal law and medicine. It shows that, in the current legal framework, the sentences, although imperfect, can be, to a certain extent, appropriate in order to create some sort of follow-up of the individual. However, since those sentences do not alter the sexual deviance, the delinquants will remain at risk for recidivism in the long term. Criminal law would benefict from further incorporating the medical discourse in order to take into consideration the specificities of those delinquents and to give them more appropriate sentences to reduce their recidivism risk and to better protect society. / Est-ce que les peines imposées en matière de contacts sexuels sont appropriées? Il s’agit de la question centrale de ce mémoire. Pour y répondre, nous avons analysé les discours médical et juridique concernant la pédophilie. Ce tour d’horizon a permis de déterminer l’influence du discours médical sur le discours juridique en cette matière. Ce mémoire présente une analyse des facteurs utilisés lors de la détermination de la peine en matière de contacts sexuels sur une personne âgée de moins de 16 ans tant du point de vue du droit criminel que de la médecine. Il démontre que, dans le cadre législatif actuel, les peines, bien qu’imparfaites, peuvent être, dans une certaine mesure, appropriées afin de permettre un certain suivi de l’individu. Cependant, puisque ces peines ne permettent pas de corriger la déviance sexuelle des délinquants, ceux-ci présenteront un risque de récidive non négligeable à long terme. Le droit aurait avantage à accorder une plus grande importance au discours médical afin de prendre en considération les spécificités de ces individus et d’imposer des peines plus appropriées pour atténuer le risque de récidive et pour protéger la société.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 denise.pdf: 376486 bytes, checksum: 34a280c7bdfba2e0c5c9f9d282daae6e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-28 / To characterize the emotional and behavioral profile of adolescents and adults accused of child sexual abuse. Also we aimed to identify their criminal history. METHOD: It s a retrospective descriptive study, based on official records from a special service (interviews, psychological tests protocols and psychosocial appraisal). The subjects of the study were all the suspects of child sexual abuse forwarded between 2002-2010 to a specialized Center in the Southern Brazil. Moreover, information was also collected from the Justice System available records. RESULTS: It was found that the majority were adults (60%), had completed the eighth grade (82,9%) and sustain themselves (54,5%). Mostly made one victim (85%), between 6 and 11 years old (41%) that was female (69%). On the records was found registries and indicators of impulsive, aggressive and controller behavior as well as emotional insecurity and dependence. CONCLUSION: The results indicate, between the suspects, characteristics commonly identified in sex offenders. Prevention and treatment strategies must go forward the sex offender mental health and, principally avoid further victimizations / OBJETIVO: Caracterizar o perfil emocional e comportamental de adolescentes e adultos suspeitos de praticar abuso sexual, bem como, identificar o respectivo histórico criminal. MÉTODO: Estudo retrospectivo, de caráter descritivo baseado na análise dos prontuários, contendo entrevistas, protocolos de testes psicológicos e pareceres psicossociais. Os sujeitos do estudo foram todos os suspeitos de terem cometido abuso sexual, encaminhados entre os anos de 2002 e 2010, a um serviço especializado, no sul do Brasil. Foram ainda colhidas informações junto às certidões de antecedentes criminais e/ou processos judiciais. RESULTADOS: Verificou-se que a maioria eram adultos (60%), do sexo masculino (99,3%), da cor branca (60,3%), estudaram até o ensino fundamental completo (82,9%) e tinham renda própria (54,5%). A maioria abusou de uma vítima (85%), com idade entre 6 e 11 anos (41%) e do sexo feminino (69%). Nos prontuários haviam registros e indicadores de comportamento impulsivo, agressivo e controlador; insegurança afetiva e dependência emocional. CONCLUSÃO: Os resultados apontaram, entre os suspeitos, características comumente encontradas em agressores sexuais. Estratégias de prevenção e tratamento devem buscar a saúde mental do abusador sexual e, sobretudo, evitar mais vitimizações