Trajetórias de vida e reclusão : estudo qualitativo com agressores sexuais

Abstract

The investigation with sexual offenders has the means to identify explanatory factors for the crime, to proceed with it’s classification, and to find specificities of what distinguishes it. Most studies are of a quantitative nature, with few studies that seek to understand their life trajectory based on the self-report of their history, which allows them to understand how they build their life history, their identity and how they integrate the past. , present and future. Considering that sexual crimes have a great negative connotation and those who practice them are subject to social stigmatization and alarmism, it’s important to understand how sexual offenders integrate this in their life history and in the construction of their identity. The present work seeks to adapt a narrative approach in the understanding of different sexual offenders, contrasting the narratives of abusers with those of rapists, of women offenders with that of male offenders and of those who have psychopathology indicators and those who don’t. The McAdams Life Story Interview was administered individually to 11 participants convicted of sexual crimes, proceeding to a narrative analysis of the data. The results indicate differences in the report between the different offenders, but, overall, they identify a narrative that focuses on adverse early family experiences and that no participant acknowledges having perpetrated sexual crime. However, from this narrative, two distinct narratives emerge: the narrative of resilient adversity and the narrative of suffering/victimizing adversity, the first of which is carried by the offending women and the second by the offending men. The implications of these results in terms of intervention are discussed.

Date of Award	2020
Original language	Portuguese
Supervisor	Ana Rita Conde Dias (Supervisor)