2024-10-10 07:15:00
The Mazan rape trial once again sheds light on the extent of sexual violence within our societies and questions its relationship with dysfunctions of several levels: social, marital and family. It notably raises the question of the link between these rapes and history, as well as the relational environment in which some of the accused grew up. It is obviously not a question of placing oneself “on the side” of the authors by justifying their actions, but of providing elements of understanding from clinical practice and corroborated by scientific literature.
Some accused of the Mazan rapes – including the main accused – say they suffered violence in childhood – including sexual violence – and/or grew up in incestuous families. These biographical elements join the stories of the patients that we, healthcare professionals, meet on systems for minors and adult perpetrators of sexual violence. We take care of men, in the vast majority of cases, most often within the framework of criminally ordered treatment before or after a conviction for offenses of a sexual nature.
Most of these patients have experienced emotional, verbal, physical or sexual violence, in accordance with what we find in the literature: this population presents a higher rate of victimization than the general population, but also higher than the population of non-sexual offenders. In their journeys, we see a large proportion of domestic violence or other forms of family vulnerability such as, for example, parents with psychiatric disorders or addictions. These different forms of violence are most often combined. It is important to point out that only a minority of people who have suffered such violence become perpetrators of sexual violence.
Disturbed relational environments
For clinicians, the incestuous dimension is central to understanding the trajectory of perpetrators of sexual violence: whether they themselves were victims in their childhood, or whether they grew up, or whether one or two of their parents were grew up in an incestuous family. These families are in fact characterized by the profoundly transgressive nature of the links which unite the members to each other: it calls into question the inscription of the subjects in structuring links of filiation and affiliation. Future perpetrators of sexual violence have a disturbed relationship with themselves, with others and with the law. They grew up in disrupted relational environments, but this family context is not necessarily identified as such by them, their loved ones or by the professionals of the different institutions (schools, etc.) that they attended.
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