Annual of social work, Vol. 23 No. 2, 2016.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/ljsr.v23i2.96
PERPETRATORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
Marko Buljevac
orcid.org/0000-0001-7128-7860
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Marija Luketić
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Zdravka Leutar
orcid.org/0000-0001-9902-507X
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present and problematize knowledge about sexual violence perpetrators with intellectual disabilities. These perpetrators are unrecognized and marginalized group of users, and because of that they do not receive appropriate treatment. This paper is divided in several thematic areas. At the beginning the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities is problematized and it is associated with social status of this people and with their rights in the society. Personality characteristics are discussed together with their sexual rights and their right to gain information about interpersonal relationships. These findings are associated with knowledge and some earlier studies results about the forms of sexual violence committed by men with intellectual disabilities. Finally, the treatments for these perpetrators which are available in the countries of Western and Northern Europe and USA are explained and linked to the problems of recidivism. The authors´ point out the most important findings about this theme in the last part of this paper, and discuss the importance of
this theme for social workers and other experts working in helping professions.
Keywords
perpetrators of sexual violence with intellectual disabilities; sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities; personality characteristics of the perpetrator and the specifics of violence; treatment and recidivism
Hrčak ID:
172559
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Publication date:
22.12.2016.
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