Cases of sexual violence against children and adolescents registered at a specialized police station in the city of Belém, Pará, Brazil

The objective was to analyze the characteristics of sexual crimes against children and adolescents, registeredat the Police Station Specialized in Child and Adolescent Assistanceof Santa Casa de Misericórdia, from 2016 to 2017, based in the city of Belém-PA. It is a documentary, descriptive, and quantitative study, with secondary data from the Secretariat of Intelligence and Criminal Analysis of the Public Security and Social Defense Officeof the State of Pará. Variables regarding the form of recordwere: type of crime; type of record; type of procedure. As for the victim and the perpetrator: age group; sex; degree of kinship. Regarding the criminal fact: day; city; neighborhood. It was found that 48.21% of the reportsare for crimes against sexual freedom, and 46.88% of the procedures are for rape crimes; 37.95% for statutory rape. The dominant type of procedure was the police investigation “by ordinance” (71.58%). Most of the victims were females (83.16%), with ages between0and 11 years old (53.68%), andmost of the offenders were males (91.05%), aged 12 to 17 years old (13.68%).Most cases of abuse occurred within the victim’s family life: the offenders were their stepfather (13.63%), and father (11.58%). Most crimes occurred on Monday (24.21%), in October (13.16%), inBelém (90.53%). Those occurred in Belém were mostly in peripheral neighborhoods: Pedreira (13%), Terra Firme (9.88%). Crimes of sexual offense prevails.