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

NCT07035717 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2025-06-25

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Violence Against Children
  • Sexual Violence
  • Consent

Interventions

OTHER

Patient interview

A semi-structured interview with five questions will be conducted, with audio recording, which will later be transcribed verbatim.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Montpellier

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Céline BAIS, MD · University Hospital, Montpellier

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-09-01
Primary Completion
2026-09-01
Completion
2026-09-01

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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