Keywords
sex offenses
forensic psychology
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Abstract
This article is a phenomenological descriptive-exploratory approach to sex offenses committed by women against children and adolescents, both male and female. The study is based on the quantification of the main variables generally taken into account by the specialized literature, such as victimoffender bond, victim, victimization strategy, nature of the offense, among others. The sources of information used for the investigation consisted of legal records and psychological reports, both provided by an institution which has an assisting role to the Chilean legal system. The main findings indicate that most of the victims belong to nursery school and have a publically known bond to the offender. Also, the strategy used to achieve submission of the victim as well as the nature of the sexual contact itself are both likely to be related to the age of the victim. As a conclusion, a phenomenological turn can be recognized regarding the place of the offender in the victim’s life, in which the role of care-taker becomes crucial in the comprehension of this kind of offence.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.