Estado del arte: prevención del abuso sexual en menores de edad en Colombia entre 2010 - 2021

Abstract

This research proposes to establish how the strategies that have been implemented for the prevention of sexual abuse in minors in Colombia have been conceptualized and understood and adequate. The time frame is located in the period of abuse from 2010 to 2021. It should be said that this work starts by recognizing that sexual abuse is a form of abuse against children and adolescents that affects their psychological and social development. Due to this, this population is taken as the focus of study, even more so taking into account the large number of reported cases of sexual abuse involving children and adolescents, an alarming number according to institutions such as the District Secretariat of Bogota Health. A state of the art is proposed for this work for which a documentary review is carried out from three categories: childhood, sexual abuse and prevention. Being a state of the art, the methodology used is part of the qualitative approach since it allows an analysis of the notions found in the different documents. The search is aimed at the idea of prevention of sexual abuse in minors in the regulatory and academic framework and the documentary research technique is based on the systematization of the documents found in academic journals, repositories and regulatory documents published by different state entities. For this reason, the documents will be classified as normative, academic and as preventive proposals. It is analyzed, in the same way, in the material under investigation, the different conceptions about childhood, sexual abuse and prevention. Regarding the exhibition, it should be noted that the documents consulted show an interest in the legal and educational sectors in proposing strategies to prevent sexual abuse. It is also found, as a second major conclusion, that the family environment is where the phenomenon of abuse occurs most frequently, which is why prevention should be considered from the institution of the family.