Background: Little is known about how young men who have committed sexual assault might acknowledge wrongdoing and eventually change and make amends. There are practical barriers to seeking the real redemption stories of perpetrators.Objective: To explore hypothetical pathways to young men's accountability-taking and amends (i.e. redemption) after perpetration of sexual assault.Method: In a pre-registered, qualitative story completion study, we presented heterosexual, cisgender college men (N = 54) with a date-based sexual assault story written by a fictional male perpetrator. Participants were prompted to complete the story so that the protagonist, who initially denies wrongdoing, eventually changes and becomes a violence prevention advocate.Results: A thematic analysis of the redemption stories revealed that this study's speculative task was a challenging one. Half of the stories did not provide an explanation for how the perpetrator was able to acknowledge wrongdoing. Overall, individualistic themes (e.g. he introspected) were more common than relational, community, or societal facilitators of redemption.Conclusions: Without infrastructure for accountability-taking and repair, or narrative exemplars to draw from in public life, it is difficult to envision redemption from violence. Rare gender-based, structurally attuned analyses of sexual violence in the stories point the way towards a more transformative vision of redemption. In this qualitative story completion study, college men wrote the redemption story of a fictional sexual assault perpetrator.Men had difficulty explaining how the perpetrator would acknowledge wrongdoing.Redemption themes tended to be individualistic versus rooted in community. Antecedentes: Poco se sabe sobre c & oacute;mo los hombres j & oacute;venes que han cometido agresiones sexuales podr & iacute;an reconocer sus malas acciones y eventualmente cambiar y enmendarse. Existen barreras pr & aacute;cticas para buscar las verdaderas historias de redenci & oacute;n de los perpetradores.Objetivo: Explorar posibles caminos hipot & eacute;ticos para que los hombres j & oacute;venes asuman la responsabilidad y se enmienden (es decir, redenci & oacute;n) despu & eacute;s de cometer una agresi & oacute;n sexual.M & eacute;todo: En un estudio cualitativo pre-registrado de finalizaci & oacute;n de historias, presentamos a hombres cisg & eacute;nero heterosexuales universitarios (N = 54) una historia de agresi & oacute;n sexual en una cita escrita por un perpetrador masculino ficticio. Se pidi & oacute; a los participantes que completaran la historia de manera que el protagonista, quien inicialmente niega haber hecho algo malo, eventualmente cambie y se convirtiera en un defensor en la prevenci & oacute;n de la violencia.Resultados: Un an & aacute;lisis tem & aacute;tico de las historias de redenci & oacute;n revel & oacute; que la tarea especulativa de este estudio fue un desaf & iacute;o. La mitad de las historias no proporcionaron una explicaci & oacute;n de c & oacute;mo el perpetrador pudo reconocer su mala conducta. En general, los temas individualistas (por ejemplo, 'hizo una introspecci & oacute;n') fueron m & aacute;s comunes que los facilitadores relacionales, comunitarios o sociales de redenci & oacute;n.Conclusiones: Sin una infraestructura para la asunci & oacute;n de responsabilidades y la reparaci & oacute;n, o ejemplos narrativos en la vida p & uacute;blica a los que recurrir, es dif & iacute;cil imaginar la redenci & oacute;n frente a la violencia. Los poco frecuentes an & aacute;lisis de la violencia sexual basados en el g & eacute;nero y con una sinton & iacute;a estructural que se encuentran en los relatos se & ntilde;alan el camino hacia una visi & oacute;n m & aacute;s transformadora de la redenci & oacute;n.
