Caraterização psicopatológica de violadores em função do modus operandi

Abstract

Rape is a violent act, obtained by force, physical and / or psychological threats causing fear and shame to the victim. In legal terms is a sex crime resulting from vaginal, anal or oral penetration, not being a consensual situation. There are numerous studies that characterize sexual offenders: their personality, psychosocial vulnerability factors, the chosen victims, among others; but also it becomes important to differentiate these offenders according to their different types, since each type have different characteristics and motivations. The thesis presented is to ascertain whether there are predisposing factors for crime practice of rape according to the modus operandi of the subject, that is, whether or not the infliction of severe damage or death of the victim. It was intended to find out how impulsivity, affect, personality, general psychopathology involved in these types of rapists.. To this end, an observation was made 53 inmates in Portuguese prisons, aged between 20 years and 58 years (M = 34.11). various psychological tests, these data previously collected by a line of research in Forensic Sexology later were developed. The results showed that violators who inflicted severe damage or victim's death had significantly less positive affect and more psychoticism and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorders in relation to violators not inflicted severe injury or death. These data allow us to reflect on the factors of danger for violation of crimes and guide the therapeutic targets in subjects that cause severe damage to the victim.

Date of Award	2016
Original language	Portuguese
Supervisor	JOANA PATRÍCIA PEREIRA CARVALHO (Supervisor)