Jorge Corsi

Jorge Corsi

Jorge Corsi (born in 1948) is an Argentine psychologist specializing in family violence. He was considered a reference in the subject, especially in Spanish-speaking countries, until he lost his prestige after being accused and convicted as a participant in a case of "corrupting a minor".

He started in the field of family violence in the 1980s, being the author of five books on the subject. He was part of a commission to draft a bill on gender violence, and founded the first specialization career in Family Violence in 1989 at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires.

He was a full professor of Brief Psychotherapies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Palermo; general supervisor of the Comprehensive Center for Psychological Health and founding member and was president of the Argentine Association for the Prevention of Family Violence. He was Director of the specialization career in Family Violence of the Postgraduate area of the UBA from 1989 to July 2008 and has taught courses and seminars in various places: among them he taught the seminar "The construction of the male gender and violence" at the Hannah Arendt Institute. He was the introducer in Argentina of the concept of "gender violence".

Corruption Case

Corsi was found guilty of having been a secondary participant in a juvenile corruption case under the suspicion of being part of a pederastic band of which he was in charge of. In 2008 he was previously imprisoned for six months in the federal prison of Marcos Paz, but was released after paying a AR$100,000 penalty bond because there was no danger of escape. In 2012 he was finally sentenced to three years in prison (the minimum possible) after an abbreviated trial, and was released in 2014. At the time of his conviction, the media speculated on a possible connection with a Spanish network, something that was never proven. He never tried to return to the academic environment.

In an interview in 2009 he declared that pedophilia is not a legal category, since it is not contemplated in the criminal codes and the publication titled that interview as "Pedophilia is not a crime":

"It's not a crime. "From the point of view of the penal codes, neither pedophilia nor hebephilia are crimes. Crime is the abuse or corruption of minors," Corsi said and then warned that "I am neither an abuser, nor have I ever been a pedophile or a hebephile."