Trastornos parafílicos en agresores sexuales: Una revisión de la literatura Iberoamericana.

Abstract

At present, the figures of sexual violence are increasing rapidly in different Latin American countries, generating concern in the entire population since it can occur in any environment in which human beings develop, regardless of sex, age, social status, ethnicity, or religion. This paper is a literature review on paraphilic disorders in sexual offenders. The methodological design is descriptive, narrative, and non-experimental, with a qualitative approach using scientific literature. The search strategy was based on journal articles published in scientific databases such as SciELO, Dialnet, and ProQuest. It was also supported by using Boolean AND search operators with the keywords: paraphilic disorders, sexual aggressors, paraphilia, and approach programs. Compilinginformation from different studies, it was found that sexual offenders can start with their behavior in childhood or any other stage, besides showing multiple factors that reinforce their behavior. Simultaneously, it is associated with the use and abuse of substances that create multiple varietiesof offenses. Ultimately, sex offenders programs have been effective in countries such as Colombia with the Prison Intervention Program for the Social Adaptation of Persons Convicted of Sexual Offenses (PIPAS by its Spanish acronym), in Spain with the Sexual Assault Center (SAC), and in Canada with Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA), as a way to prevent recidivism and provide the population with an effective treatment that does not always include deprivation of liberty.