ABSTRACT

Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is not a recent phenomenon. However, it increased visibility in Portugal in 2002, when a news piece raised suspicions about numerous public figures. Since then, there has been an upward trend in complaints and has stabilized in recent years. Nevertheless, even though the research emerging, it presents gaps in the characteristics and modus operandi of the child sex offenders in the Portuguese context.

This article presents an exploratory study, where 66 case reports of inmates in Portugal (Lisbon District) were convicted for CSA crimes recorded in the last ten years.

We used the Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Cluster Analysis as statistical procedures, focusing on the dynamics of the offense, context, number of victims, relationship, and characteristics of the offense. With this analysis, we identified four distinct profiles, which occurs with both techniques. In addition, we found differences regarding the use of aggressivity and/or treating during or after the offense, nature of abuse and introduced the crime admission as an active variable, with contributions to the model definition. According to these results and international literature, we defined our groups in four types: Regressed, Indiscriminate, Inadequate, and Violent.

We discuss our results based on the international models and demonstrate affinities with them.

摘要

儿童性虐待 (CSA) 并不是最近才出现的现象。然而，它在 2002 年提高了在葡萄牙的知名度，当时一则新闻引发了对众多公众人物的怀疑。此后，投诉呈上升趋势，近年来趋于稳定。尽管如此，尽管研究出现了，但它在葡萄牙语境中儿童性犯罪者的特征和作案手法方面存在差距。

本文介绍了一项探索性研究，其中 66 例葡萄牙（里斯本区）囚犯因过去十年记录的 CSA 罪行被定罪。

我们使用多重对应分析和聚类分析作为统计程序，重点关注犯罪的动态、背景、受害者人数、关系和犯罪特征。通过此分析，我们确定了两种不同的技术都存在的四种不同的配置文件。此外，我们发现在犯罪期间或之后使用攻击性和/或治疗、虐待性质方面存在差异，并将犯罪承认作为主动变量引入，对模型定义有贡献。根据这些结果和国际文献，我们将我们的组定义为四种类型：回归、不分青红皂白、不足和暴力。

我们根据国际模型讨论我们的结果并展示与它们的相似性。