Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medicine Career, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo 130105, Ecuador.
Section of Legal and Forensic Medicine, Facultad de Medicina y Enfermería, Universidad de Cordoba, 14004 Cordoba, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 12;19(24):16666. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416666.
The objective is to identify the prevalence of child abuse and criminal behavior among young male prisoners in Ecuador.
A total of 425 young people between 12 and 18 years of age, deprived of liberty from different centers for adolescent offenders in Ecuador, were used. The level of abuse to which they had been subjected in childhood was evaluated, as well as the risk factors present in their history. The relationship between abuse, risk factors, and criminal behavior was analyzed.
A high prevalence of the different types of abuse was found in the mean age of 15.03 years standard deviation (SD = 1.34).
In addition, a relationship was discovered between the abuse suffered during childhood and the risk factors present in criminal behavior during adolescence, which was demonstrated in this article. The practical implications of these results are discussed, taking into consideration their relevance for prevention.
在厄瓜多尔，确定年轻男囚犯中虐待儿童和犯罪行为的流行率。
总共使用了 425 名年龄在 12 至 18 岁之间、来自厄瓜多尔不同青少年罪犯中心的被剥夺自由的年轻人。评估了他们在童年时期所遭受的虐待程度，以及他们的历史中存在的风险因素。分析了虐待、风险因素和犯罪行为之间的关系。
在平均年龄为 15.03 岁的标准偏差（SD = 1.34）中发现了各种类型的虐待的高流行率。
此外，在本文中发现，儿童时期遭受的虐待与青春期犯罪行为中存在的风险因素之间存在关系。讨论了这些结果的实际意义，考虑到它们在预防方面的相关性。
