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Biomédica

versión impresa ISSN 0120-4157versión On-line ISSN 2590-7379

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NORENA-HERRERA, Camilo  y  RODRIGUEZ, Sergio Andrés. Sexual violence in a Colombian municipality: Victims’ and offenders’ characteristics, 2011-2020. Biomed. [online]. 2022, vol.42, n.3, pp.492-507.  Epub 02-Sep-2022. ISSN 0120-4157.  https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.6460.

Introduction:

Sexual violence is a public health problem included in political and social agendas worldwide. It is a medical emergency seen in health services, which are the main source of record-keeping by means of public health surveillance systems.

Objective:

To analyze the sociodemographic characteristics of victims of sex offenses and their offenders in the municipality of Envigado, Antioquia, between 2011 and 2020.

Materials and methods:

This was a descriptive cross-sectional study that analyzed all the sexual violence records reported in the Envigado Public Health Surveillance System for gender and intrafamilial violence (file code INS-875) during the 2011-2020 period.

Results:

A total of 807 cases of sexual violence were recorded between 2011 and 2020; 62.0% were cases of sexual abuse against persons under 18 years of age, and 82.3% of the victims were adolescent women suffering sexual violence exerted by relatives. The main aggressors were men (99.1%) with a median age of 26 years.

Conclusion:

Sexual violence has increased over time and in 2020, the year of population confinement due to COVID-19, the rates in women and in the life courses of early childhood, adolescence, and youth were the highest during the study period.

Palabras clave : Sex offenses; domestic violence; gender-based violence; violence against women; rape; sexual harassment.

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