CONSIDERATIONS OVER PARAPHILA AND PAEDOPHILIA-BASED CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST SEXUAL FREEDOM AND INTEGRITY

Abstract

Common knowledge of how society works stands as sufficient proof to how wide is the array of mental disorders that have a significant impact on what is specific to certain offenders. The purpose of this thesis is to raise the level of awareness regarding the degree in which such persons, duly diagnosed with this type of deviant behaviour, pose a threat to society, and to also consider the response to such conduct, which should consist in security measures that are able to contain urges of such kind, desires that most of the times escape some of the aggressors’ ability to control on their own. Therefore, we emphasise that, in order to prevent more people from falling victim to such persons, a firm reaction of the legislators is considered mandatory, followed by a similar reaction from the judicial bodies, especially in regard to those who admit and accept the fact that they suffer from this type of conditions, as we are about to demonstrate.

Keywords

• paraphilia
• paedophilia
• expert report
• compulsion to undergo medical treatment
• non-voluntary hospital admission