This thesis is aimed at the criteria influencing the choice of leisure activities for Plzeň Prison convicted. Is there a correlation between the selection of the type of leisure activities and the type of crime for which the accused was convicted? If so what and why? The theoretical part describes the historical development of the Czech Prison and history of Plzeň Prison and development of leisure activities. It also describes the possible psychosocial factors influencing the selection of these activities. The second practical part of this thesis contains a survey of prisoners Pilsen and its results. The survey was compiled on the basis of the theoretical part of this thesis and related information from the bachelor thesis. The themes of interviews were: social life - facilities, leisure time spent with family and friends, aspects affecting their free time and leisure activities in Plzeň Prison in certain sections. The main objective of the survey was to find out if there is the relationship (correlation) between the selection of leisure activities and crime for which they are placed in prison. In total were interviewed twenty Sentenced Prisoners in Plzeň Prison.) The results of this research are as follows. There wasn't find any correlation between the selection of leisure activity and type of crime. This means according this research we cannot say that convicted person for property crimes prefers educational/soft activities and sentenced for violent crimes sport. But in the details, we can find some specific patterns in selection of leisure activities

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:25:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissMPM.pdf: 896533 bytes, checksum: 35a53630d3466093b6841a2a9f70839b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-03-31 / This dissertation: The social representations about the feminine prison labor aims at collecting and analysing the social representations the women who are prisoners (women inmates) and the ones who work at prison, such as guards, teachers and principals of the Penitenciária Feminina da Capital (São Paulo SP) have about work. The work is considered by the prisoners as an opportunity to earn money and at the same time as a brief scape from their reality. Besides, the prison labor has a variety of values which are associated to values expressed by the ones who are not at prison. Therefore the prison labor is conceived as something highly positive which gives the prisoners the citizenship passport. Even when the feminine prisoners do not agree with the work at prison, they are forced to work as the work is conceptualized as something which might rescue the criminals, offering them the possibility of being reintegrated in society. / A Dissertação Representações Sociais do Trabalho Carcerário Feminino tem, como objeto principal, colher e analisar as representações sociais atribuídas ao trabalho por mulheres encarceradas, guardas, mestras e diretoras da Penitenciária Feminina da Capital (São Paulo/SP). O trabalho representa para as presas uma oportunidade de ajuda financeira e fuga momentânea da realidade que estão inseridas. Além disso, o trabalho carcerário possui uma variedade de valores que são associados aos valores concebidos pela sociedade extramuro. Dessa forma, o trabalho dentro das instituições carcerárias recebe um status positivo que confere a presa trabalhadora a possibilidade de um passaporte para a cidadania. Mesmo que não compactue com o trabalho carcerário, a mulher encarcerada é obrigada a trabalhar. Porém, o ato de trabalhar dentro de uma prisão se sobrepõe a esse fato, pois perpassa na instituição a lógica de que é o trabalho o grande responsável pelo resgate do indivíduo delituoso ao convívio social.

The Prison Service of the Czech Republic has passed through a period of transition from the totalitarian conception of punishment and detention to a humanitarian one. The chief goal of the new philosophy of treating prisoners is to reach a positive change in the behaviour of a convicted person, so that he/she will be capable of living in compliance with the laws of this country in the future.Within the framework of this transformation the proportion of expert workers in the Prison Service of the Czech Republic increases,these expert workes being not only men, but women too. This degree work inquires into the role of women in the Czech penal system and provides answers to affrairs related to this aspect. The primary goal was the monitoring of women working in individual prisons and inquiry into their working risks and contributions. The authoress chose a combination of qualitative and quantitative research in order to verify hypotheses.

The title of the thesis is Social Integration of People Released from the Prison. The theoretical part describes current situation concerning living conditions of the people sentenced to the prison, that are determined by legal standards in Czech Republic and by internal regulations of each jail house. These conditions form the personality of convicts and influence their social situation, relationships, and connections. The convicts need after the release to be helped with their integration into the society the most and also to be helped with handling their social situation to avoid recidivism. The aim of the diploma work is to describe problems of individuals released from the prison and the process of resocialization in detail. The thesis also provides the survey of possibilities for helping these people, thus service provided for people with inability to adapt to a society and types of facilities dealing with this target group. The practical part was conceived as the qualitative research in form of case studies using semi-structured interviews with the individuals released from the prison. I asked eight clients 28 questions in following categories: social situation of clients before the sentence, their life while imprisoned, their return to freedom and cooperation of the clients with institutions. There was also performed subsidiary quantitative research within the diploma work. I inquired social workers supervising released adults two questions, using e-mail correspondence. The questions were concerning the most frequent problems they had to deal with, after a client was released from the prison, and also services in Czech Republic{\crq}s system that workers missed in helping the target group. I outlined the comparison of the results coming out of my investigation with the current situation in related area, and also with other investigations at the end of my thesis. I recommend for improving the situation of the released individuals from prison to establish institutions with complete range of assistance, multi focused team, and the support in employing the people with criminal records as the high quality instrument of their social integration.

O objetivo central desta tese é o de compreender, a partir dos usos do território do estado de São Paulo pelo sistema penal, como são ampliadas as desigualdades socioespaciais, em diferentes escalas de análise do município ao território do estado federativo. Foi demonstrado como a prisão, um objeto do sistema penal, promove desigualdades espaciais pelo consumo acelerado de recursos econômicos do orçamento do Estado, mas também pela criação de locais e sujeitos estigmatizados. No entanto, malgrado o aumento exponencial dos recursos para expansão do sistema prisional paulista nos últimos anos, a prisão continua sendo ineficaz no combate à criminalidade. Mas consome, cada vez mais, somas maiores de recursos públicos em detrimento de outras áreas e demandas sociais. As desigualdades ampliadas por este processo podem responder por parte dos sentimentos de insegurança da população em tempos de globalização neoliberal. O sistema prisional o conjunto de todas as unidades prisionais que se articulam para cumprir diferentes regimes de privação de liberdade funciona de modo seletivo, atendendo interesses político-econômicos hegemônicos, em detrimento da garantia de igualdade de direitos entre todos os distintos sujeitos sociais que compõem a totalidade da sociedade brasileira. Deste modo, a seletividade penal envolve não apenas combate aos crimes, mas principalmente a repressão dos sujeitos sociais não hegemônicos, os mais reprimidos pelo braço penal do Estado. O aprisionamento, em conjunto com dois outros processos sociais contemporâneos - a seletividade da ação policial e a discriminação entre classes sociais nos tribunais - somado à escolha também seletiva dos territórios utilizados para implantação das novas unidades prisionais, expressa a reprodução das desigualdades espaciais no Estado de São Paulo neste início de Século XXI. Como alternativas à prisão, foram demonstradas possibilidades teóricas de se reverter este processo de ampliação das desigualdades espaciais, e de encontrar outras soluções para a conflitividade social. Elas passam tanto pelo redirecionamento dos usos do capital excedente pelo Estado, quanto pela conscientização social acerca dos principais mecanismos de sustentação dos sistemas penal e prisional na sociedade contemporânea. O que poderia promover mudanças culturais e, a partir delas, mudanças estruturais como, por exemplo, o fim da prisão. As novas possibilidades de uso dos recursos sociais e econômicos do Estado poderiam diminuir desigualdades espaciais, convergindo com outras formas de lida com as contradições da atual sociedade contemporânea capitalista. Um debate teórico e político bastante complexo, mas fundamental para constituição de um novo projeto civilizatório para São Paulo e para o Brasil, realizado a partir de contribuição inédita da ciência geográfica. / The main objective of this thesis was to understand as socio-spatial inequalities are magnified at different scales of analysis, from municipality to state, considering the territory use of the state of São Paulo by penal system. It was demonstrated how prison, an object of the penal system, promotes spatial inequalities not only by inflated consumption of economic resources from the state budget, but also by creating stigmatized individuals and locations. However, despite the exponential increase in resources to expand São Paulo prison system in recent years, the prison remains ineffective in combating crime. Moreover, it consumes increasingly larger sums of public funds at the expense of other areas and social demands. The inequalities enlarged by this process may account for part of the populations feelings of insecurity in times of neoliberal globalization. The prison system _ the set of all prisons that are organized to meet different regimes of detention _ works selectively, serving hegemonic political-economic interests in detriment of ensuring equal rights for all different social individuals that comprise the whole of Brazilian society. Thus, the criminal selectivity involves not only combating crimes, but also reprehending non-hegemonic social individuals, the most repressed by the state penal system. The imprisonment, together with two other contemporary social processes _ selectivity of police action and discrimination between social classes in the courts _, as well as the selective choice of territories used for deployment of new prisons, expressed the reproduction of spatial inequalities in the State of São Paulo at the beginning of the 21st Century. As alternatives to prison, theoretical possibilities have been demonstrated to reverse this process of expansion of spatial inequalities, and to find other solutions to social conflicts. Those alternatives involve redirecting the use of the surplus capital by the State, as well as creating social awareness about the key mechanisms that support criminal and prison systems in contemporary society; which could promote cultural and structural changes leading to the end of prisons. The new possibilities of social and economic resources of the state could reduce spatial inequalities, converging with other ways of dealing with contradictions of the current contemporary capitalist society. A rather complex theoretical and political debate would be essential for constituting a new civilization project for São Paulo and for Brazil, held from a unprecedented contribution from geographical science.

A busca por alternativas à prisão é antiga, e a vigilância eletrônica surgiu como uma solução tecnológica. O contexto cultural dos Estados Unidos no fim do século XX propiciou o surgimento do monitoramento eletrônico, influenciado também pelo utilitarismo e pela cultura do controle do delito. O monitoramento deve respeitar os princípios do Estado Democrático de Direito (dignidade humana) e estar vinculado aos fins preventivos da pena (prevenção especial positiva). Por si só não reduz a população carcerária e não diminui a reincidência, mas as vantagens econômicas e os bons resultados obtidos por outros países não podem ser desprezados. Assim, a experiência estrangeira revela bons resultados no uso da vigilância junto a programas de acompanhamento social. No Brasil, o monitoramento eletrônico foi introduzido por lei na execução penal e como medida cautelar. Interessante seria que fosse estabelecido como modo de execução da prisão (alternativa aos estabelecimentos penitenciários). Poderia ser previsto ainda para a execução das penas restritivas de direitos que demandam fiscalização, consolidando um sistema alternativo de penas capaz de promover a prevenção e substituir o cárcere para delitos menores. O monitoramento eletrônico restringe direitos fundamentais e, assim, deve ser previsto em lei, limitado à restrição imposta, aplicado se necessário e com a menor visibilidade possível. / The search for alternatives to prison is old, and electronic surveillance has emerged as a technological solution. The cultural context of the United States at the end of the twentieth century has propitiated the emergence of electronic monitoring, also influenced by utilitarism and by the culture of offense control. Monitoring should respect the principles of Democratic Rule of Law (human dignity) and to be linked to the preventive purposes of sentence (positive special prevention). By itself it does not decrease the prison population and it does not reduce recidivism, but the economic gains and the good results obtained by other countries can not be ignored. Thus, foreign experience shows good results in the use of surveillance along with programs of social support. In Brazil, the electronic monitoring was introduced by law in criminal enforcement and as a precautionary measure. It would be interesting if it could be established as a way of prison enforcement (alternative to prisons). It could be also expected to enforce restrictive penalties of rights that require monitoring, consolidating an alternative system of penalties that can promote prevention and replace the prison for minor offenses. The electronic monitoring restricts fundamental rights and thus it should be provided by law, limited to the restriction, applied when it is necessary with the least visibility.

Cette thèse propose d’étudier la trajectoire des femmes incarcérées dans la prison péruvienne Chorrillos I à Lima et d’analyser l’influence des inégalités sociales et du parcours de vie des détenues sur les dynamiques carcérales de cet établissement. Les entretiens menés avec les détenues révèlent un ensemble de similitudes dans leur parcours avant l’incarcération, parmi lesquelles ressortent des schémas de domination genrée, des situations de précarité socioéconomique, des expériences de mères célibataires, ainsi que la recherche de stratégies de survie. Le croisement de l’étude de leur trajectoire et de l’analyse des rapports sociaux, ethniques et genrés permet de comprendre leurs formes d’adaptation au milieu carcéral ainsi que les relations qui lient l’ensemble des acteurs en présence, pour dévoiler les ressorts d’un univers carcéral particulier. / This thesis studies the trajectory of incarcerated women in the Peruvian prison Chorrillos I in Lima and analyzes the influence of social inequalities and detainees’ life-paths on the dynamics of this prison. Interviews with the inmates reveal a range of similarities in their trajectories before incarceration, from gendered domination schemes, socio-economic insecurity and life as single-mothers, to the search for survival strategies. Cross-examining the study of their trajectories with analyses of social, ethnic and gender relations provides an understanding of strategies used by these women to adapt to the prison environment, as well as the relationships between all the actors, and reveals the specific characteristics of a particular prison universe. / Esta tesis propone estudiar la trayectoria de las mujeres encarceladas en el establecimiento penitenciario peruano Chorrillos I en Lima, y analizar la influencia de las desigualdades sociales y del recorrido de vida de las internas sobre las dinámicas carcelarias de este penal. Las entrevistas realizadas con las internas revela un conjunto de similitudes en su trayectoria antes del encarcelamiento, dentro de las cuales sobresalen esquemas de dominación de género, situaciones de precariedad socioeconómica, experiencias de madres solteras, así como la búsqueda de estrategias de supervivencia. El cruce del estudio de su trayectoria con el análisis de las relaciones sociales, étnicas y de género permite comprender sus formas de adaptación al ámbito carcelario y las relaciones que vinculan al conjunto de los actores, para develar los mecanismos de un universo carcelario particular.

Cette thèse se propose d’analyser la trajectoires de femmes ayant participé au conflit armé péruvien entre 1980 et 2000. La perspective de genre prime ici sur les divisions politiques et idéologiques ayant opposé les différents acteurs du conflit. Elle permet de proposer une nouvelle approche du phénomène de violence armée mais aussi des questions liées aux problématiques de résolution de conflit et de réconciliation. Ce travail montre comment la difficile réintégration des femmes à la société civile après le conflit s’accompagne d’un phénomène de violence de genre qui peut être envisagé comme le prolongement de la violence armée mais aussi comme un instrument de pouvoir institutionnalisé au sein de la société péruvienne. Cette recherche s’appuie sur un travail de terrain approfondi, réalisé principalement à la prison de haute sécurité de Chorrillos à Lima, mais aussi dans le département d’Ayacucho. Elle met en avant l’évolution des diverses dynamiques d’interdépendance entre les sphères privées et publique, et leur enjeu dans la renormalisation des rapports sociaux après un conflit armé. / This investigation analyzes the participation of women in Peruvian armed conflict between 1980 and 2000 as well as their reintegration to civil life. The gender perspective exceeds political and ideological divisions of actors who got confronted during conflict. It helps to show a new approach of armed violence phenomenon as well as topics of conflict resolution. This work demonstrates how the difficult reintegration of female ex combatants to civil society comes with a gender violence which can be interpreted as an extension of armed violence as well as a reflect of the power institutionalized in Peruvian society. This investigation leans on a long field work most of it realized in maximum security prison in Lima. It emphasizes the evolution of interdependence between private and public spheres, which control is identified as a stake for the renormalization of social gender relationships after an armed conflict.

Cette thèse étudie la transformation de l’ancienne prison publique de Valparaiso, au Chili, en un espace culturel à partir de sa désaffectation en 1999. S’appuyant sur une enquête de terrain intégrant des entretiens approfondis, des documents de presse écrite et d’autres sources secondaires, elle interroge les configurations singulières qui contribuent à la réhabilitation de ce lieu portant le stigmate de ses fonctions précédentes. Les enchevêtrements entre le monde carcéral et les mondes de l’art et de la culture ainsi que les formes d’administration à mi-chemin entre l’institutionnel et le citoyen sont analysés. La thèse soutient que les infrastructures désaffectées ne sont pas neutres : ancrées dans l’espace urbain, elles constituent le cadre de mémoires collectives et de significations qui dépassent leurs caractéristiques fonctionnelles. Le travail explore les effets de l’ancienne prison sur le capital symbolique et le travail des artistes locaux, dans un cadre de précarité matérielle. Réciproquement, il examine les réappropriations dont le site est l’objet et comment ils tendent à légitimer l’ancienne prison elle-même. Dans le contexte du classement de Valparaiso au patrimoine de l’Humanité par l’Unesco, en 2003, et plus largement du système économique néolibéral chilien, l’ancien pénitencier apparaît comme une plateforme pour des mégaprojets infrastructurels, en vue de la relance de la ville par le biais de stratégies fondées sur la patrimonialisation, le tourisme et les services. En ce sens, la thèse se penche sur la dimension conflictuelle du lieu, tout en analysant les discours officiels de promotion de ces mégaprojets, les contestations qu’ils rencontrent, ainsi que les difficultés éprouvées par les occupants pour s’organiser et parvenir à consolider un projet commun. / This thesis studies the transformation of Valparaiso’s former prison into a cultural space, from the moment of its clearance in 1999. Starting from a fieldwork based on in-depth interviews, written press material and other secondary sources, the investigation examines the singular configurations which contributes to the recovery of this space stigmatized because of its former functions. In this regard, the relations between the prison world and the art and culture world as well as the administration modes half way between the institutional and the civic, are analyzed. This thesis argues that the uninhabited infrastructures are not “neutral”, but are rooted into the urban space, forming the framework of collective memories and are of significations which go beyond merely functional characteristics. In this way this investigation explores the effects of the former prison on the symbolic capital and the work of local artists, framed in a situation of material precariousness. Reciprocally, this research analyses the re-appropriations of the space and to what extent they tend to legitimise the former prison itself. In the context of the designation of Valparaíso as world heritage by the Unesco in 2003, and more broadly of the neoliberal economic Chilean system, the former prison appears as a platform for diverse mega infrastructure projects, with the aim of boosting the city through strategies based on patrimonialization, tourism and services. In this regard, the thesis explores the conflict dimension of the location, by taking into account the official promotion speeches of these megaprojects, the forms of resistance they are confronted to, and the challenges experienced by the occupants themselves to organise and consolidate a common project.

Sexual practices in prisons the world over are almost the same. Men incarcerated for many years in limited space with other men without the opportunity for normal heterosexual sexual outlet end up practicing homosexual sex. South African prisons are not an exception. In this dissertation I tackled a number of issues from a Christian Ethics perspective, with a slant from the Evangelical wing of Christianity as this is my background. The few issues I investigated from a South African prison system are the following. Firstly the issue of homosexuality was looked at from an Evangelical perspective. The conclusion was that the practice of homosexuality is a sin just like any other sexual deviation from the God ordained sex within marriage. Secondly empirical research was done to verify homosexual sex in prisons in South Africa. The results of this research confirmed that homosexual sex acts are a daily occurrence in our prisons. The results also showed that the aspect of indecent assault, forced or coerced homosexual sex acts now classified as “male rape,” was rife in prisons. Other factors related to this matter were that prison gangs and Correctional members’ complicity aggravated this issue of “male rape”. Thirdly we looked at the policy of “no sex in prison” as set out by the Department of Correctional Services. A number of discrepancies were uncovered. Firstly, there is unfair discrimination in the treatment of heterosexuals and homosexuals in prisons. Whereas heterosexuals are legally barred from having sex with their spouses while in prison, homosexuals are having sex in prison with their partners. Although the DOCS insists on the policy of no sex in prison, they appear to be condoning it in that they provide free condoms to inmates. In accordance with the stipulation of the Bill of Rights regarding unfair discrimination, the DOCS should treat inmates equally. To make matters worse, the South African Government has sanctioned same sex unions but failed to put in place effective control measures in correctional service centres to ensure that the policy of no sex in prison is not undermined. The DOCS should look at either allowing heterosexuals to have conjugal visits or ensure that homosexuals are not put together in the same cell, so as to adhere to this policy. Fourthly the issue punishment and rehabilitation was also investigated. This was done from a Christian ethical perspective. The Department of Correctional Services says that their objective is not to punishment but to rehabilitate. The discussion showed that putting convicted criminals in prison was a punishment on its own. It was further discussed that punishment is biblical, and that whilst punishment should be left to God, He in turn has put governments on earth as His servants to mete out punishment to those who deserve it. It was also discussed that rehabilitation does not happen automatically, that it needs a buy in by the individual concerned as seen from the examples of individuals cited in the thesis. Lastly, the causes of such sexual behaviour in prison were investigated. Corrupt officials, overcrowding and inadequate food supply, among others, are matters to be rectified in dealing with this problem. Alternatives to jail sentences for minor offences are also strongly suggested so as to alleviate the problem of overcrowding. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Dogmatics and Christian Ethics / unrestricted