How do Adults Sexual Offender Against Pre-pubescent Minors Perceive the Notion of Consent Based on the Account of Their Lived Experience ? (SOconsent)

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Consent; Sexual Violence; Violence Against Children

Treatments: Other: Patient interview

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07035717

RECHMPL25_0222

Details and patient eligibility

About

In 2024, the police and gendarmerie recorded 12,260 victims of sexual violence, an increase of 7% compared with 2023. In 2019, 36,000 cases of sexual violence (rape or sexual assault) were handled by the public prosecutor's office. In 53.3% of cases, sexual violence was committed against minors. In 95% of cases, the perpetrators were male. The word is getting out about sexual violence, bringing the subject of consent to the forefront of media and scientific news. Even if the word is common, its definition is subtle, its understanding complex and many factors can influence its perception, including sex education, psychosocial skills and adherence to gender stereotypes.

Research has shown that most people define sexual consent in the context of an oral conversation. However, studies show us that this is not what is done in practice: sexual consent or refusal is most often non-verbal and indirect.

No studies have been carried out on consent in a population of perpetrators of sexual violence against minors.

It is know that perpetrators of sexual violences exhibit alexythmias and cognitive distortions in the area of sexuality. The issue of consent is crucial, since perpetrators of sexual violences may believe that prepubescent children are capable of consenting to a sexual act.

The aim of this study is to obtain a better analysis of the mechanisms, situations, facilitating factors, representations, sensitive perceptions and attitudes that lead perpetrators of sexual violences of minors to experiment with consent in their relationships. A better assessment of their understanding of consent and the factors that may have influenced it could have an impact on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, as well as on treatment, and avoid potential new acts.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult perpetrators of sexual offences against prepubescent minors followed up at CRIAVS-LR

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with dementia, intellectual disability or decompensated psychiatric disorder

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

CRIAVS-LR patient

Description:

Purposeful sampling of adult perpetrators of sexual offenses against prepubescent minors, followed at the CRIAVS-LR (Resource Center for Professionals Working with Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in Languedoc-Roussillon)

Treatment:

Other: Patient interview