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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Violence in the child and adolescent Cuban population has been scarcely studied from a gender approach.
Objective: To determine the gender violence patterns thought time in studies previously carried out in Havana.
Methods: Descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study of four investigations carried out in Havana Institute of Legal Medicine (1990-2010), about mistreatment of boys and girls under the age of 16 years, with victims or authors of violent crimes. Descriptive statistics methods were used, together with the frequencies comparison by the chi-square test and variables association by the Odds Ratio test with its confidence interval.
Results: In the first two studies related with sexual crimes, there was a predominance of the female sex regarding the victims, with no difference between the two studies (246 girls/total: 320) (p ‹ 0.0001). In the third one, related with nonsexual violence, gender differences were not found. In the fourth study, regarding law-offending boys and girls, there was a predominance of the male sex (p ‹ 0.005): 26 boys vs. 2 girls.
Conclusions: Violence is found to be related with the gender issue. There was predominance of the female sex in sexual crimes and of the male sex as criminal law offenders. The existence is reaffirmed of a historical, cultural and social pattern guided towards what is expected from both genders: girls and adolescents and sexual objects and passive being and the man as active subject and responsible for submitting the woman.

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