Guimarães João Alfredo Tenório Lins, Villela Wilza Vieira
Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas, Maceió, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2011 Aug;27(8):1647-53. doi: 10.1590/s0102-311x2011000800019.
The purpose of this study was to characterize cases of violence against children and adolescents examined at the Forensic Medicine Institute in Maceió, Alagoas State, Brazil. Three hundred and three cases from September, 2008 to March, 2009, were analyzed. Victims were interviewed and data were collected on the type of violence, victim's gender, age, schooling, and economic class, maternal schooling, characteristics of the aggressor and person reporting the case, location, and repeat offenses. Violence against children and adolescents in this sample was concentrated in lower income groups, and girls were victimized more frequently than boys. Most perpetrators were non-relatives, but known to the family. Sexual abuse was more common among younger children, while physical assault was more common against adolescents. The victim's home was the most frequent site of the violence. Further studies are needed to determine whether violence in other socioeconomic groups and against males actually does not occur, or whether it simply is not reported to the Forensic Medicine Institute and thus remains invisible.
本研究旨在描述在巴西阿拉戈斯州马塞约市法医学研究所接受检查的暴力侵害儿童和青少年案件的特征。分析了2008年9月至2009年3月期间的303起案件。对受害者进行了访谈，并收集了有关暴力类型、受害者性别、年龄、受教育程度、经济阶层、母亲受教育程度、攻击者和报案人的特征、地点以及重复犯罪等数据。该样本中针对儿童和青少年的暴力行为集中在低收入群体，女孩比男孩更频繁地成为受害者。大多数施暴者是非亲属，但为家庭所熟知。性虐待在年幼儿童中更为常见，而身体攻击在青少年中更为常见。受害者的家中是暴力行为最常发生的地点。需要进一步研究以确定其他社会经济群体中针对男性的暴力行为是否实际上并未发生，或者是否只是未向法医学研究所报告，因而仍然不为人所知。
