Aspectos da Personalidade de Autores de Violência Sexual contra Crianças e Adolescentes

Abstract

This Master's thesis is organized in three articles and its objective is to study aspects of the personality of sex offenders (SO) against children and adolescents. The first article consists of a literature review of national and international publications that investigate the personality of the SO through the Rorschach test. A total of nine publications were found, through which it was possible to detect impairment in the psychological maturity of the SO, especially in the cognitive, affective aspects, in the self-perception and tendency to respond impulsively. The second article deals with an empirical study, whose objective was to investigate whether SO against children and adolescents with and without psychopathy differs in relation to the capacity to manage stress and distress and the psychological maturity (ID). 30 re-educators participating in the study were serving a closed sentence for sexual crimes against children and adolescents, and they were divided into two groups: G1, composed of SO considered without psychopathy (N= 20; Psychopathy Checklist Revised - PCL-R <30); and G2, composed of the SO with psychopathy (N= 10; PCL-R≥30). In this study, a data collection protocol was used in the criminal process, the Rorschach test in the Perfomance Evaluation System (RPAS) considering the variables of the stress and distress domain and the psychological maturity (ID), and the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R) for identifying the traits of psychopathy. The data were analyzed by Student's t test and linear regression analysis. The results showed that 16% of SO psychopathy was explained by lower level of stress and distress. Regarding psychological maturity, there was no statistical difference between the SO groups. However, considering the results of other groups investigated in the scientific literature, the indices of psychological maturity (ID) found in the participants were similar to those of people with diverse psychological disorders or people in therapeutic communities by judicial order. The third article aimed at analyzing the dangerousness and personality characteristics of sex offender (SO) against children and adolescents, through the Rorschach test in the Performance Evaluation System (R-PAS). 69 SO participating in the study were serving a closed sentence for sexual crimes, and they were divided into two groups: G1, victimized only children (N= 41); and G2, victimized adolescents and adults (N= 28). A data collection protocol was used for data collection in the criminal process and the Rorschach in the Performance Evaluation System (R-PAS) and a variable known as hazard, which was constructed through the factorial analysis of the main component (FAMC), using variables of the criminal profile. Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation, student t, chi-square and Pearson's or Fisher's exact, and Cohen's d. The results showed that the greater the use of intellectualization, as a defense mechanism to avoid contact with crime, the greater the danger; and as for the differences between groups, G1 presented more aggressive intentions, while G2 revealed a low level of stress.