Submitted by JÚLIO HEBER SILVA (julioheber@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-09-11T18:16:13Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Valdeir Cesário dos Santos - 2017.pdf: 5798484 bytes, checksum: 44248ad6f846c63abcd637a53e7db77c (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-09-19T13:36:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Valdeir Cesário dos Santos - 2017.pdf: 5798484 bytes, checksum: 44248ad6f846c63abcd637a53e7db77c (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-19T13:36:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Valdeir Cesário dos Santos - 2017.pdf: 5798484 bytes, checksum: 44248ad6f846c63abcd637a53e7db77c (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-08 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / The education, as the child’s right and the responsibility of the State was consolidated by the French Revolution. In Brazil, this was guaranteed later, and although there have been improvements in the public policies in the last fifteen years, many youngsters do not go to school. In this way, this study intended to discuss the profile and the right to education of youngsters who have been sentenced to correctional measures without freedom restraint, mainly the measures of social service in the city of Anápolis, in the context of public policies. We aimed to understand how the right to education is guaranteed to the youngster who has committed an offence and is sentenced to community service. In order to fulfill what was intended, we carried out bibliographical and documental research, taking into consideration the records of assistance of the youngsters in conflict with the law, available in the Centro Especializado de Referência em Assistência Social – CREAS. We also interviewed the judge of the Child and Youth Court of Law of Anápolis; the coordinator of correctional measures of CREAS; an orientator of the community service measure of CREAS and ten young people, one girl and nine boys. We reached the conclusion that although valuable efforts have been made up to now, it is necessary to reformulate the correctional practice without freedom restraint and its plan of attending, mainly concerning the intersectoriality of the public policies. / A educação como um direito da criança e um dever do Estado foi consolidada com a Revolução Francesa. No Brasil, esta garantia foi tardia e, apesar dos inúmeros avanços nas políticas públicas dos últimos 15 anos, muitos jovens estão fora da escola. Nesse sentido, este estudo pretendeu discutir o perfil e o direito à educação dos jovens em situação de cumprimento de medida socioeducativa em meio aberto, particularmente as medidas de prestação de serviço à comunidade na cidade de Anápolis, no contexto das políticas públicas. Objetivou-se compreender como o direito à educação é garantido ao jovem autor de ato infracional em cumprimento de medida socioeducativa de prestação de serviço à comunidade. Para alcançar o que se pretendia, esta pesquisa efetivou-se por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, através dos dados dos prontuários de atendimento dos jovens em conflito com a lei, disponíveis no Centro Especializado de Referência em Assistência Social – CREAS. Também foram realizadas entrevistas com o juiz da infância e juventude de Anápolis; com o coordenador de medidas socioeducativas do CREAS e com uma orientadora de medida de prestação de serviço à comunidade também do CREAS, além de 10 jovens com idades entre 14 e 19 anos, sendo uma menina e nove meninos. Concluiu-se, a partir da investigação que, apesar dos valorosos esforços realizados até agora, é preciso uma reformulação das práticas de socioeducação em meio aberto e seu respectivo plano de atendimento, principalmente no que se refere à intersetorialidade das políticas públicas.

M.Phil. (Labour Law & Employment Relations) / The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is a security-oriented institution and one of its constitutional mandates is to keep offenders in safe and humane conditions until they are lawfully released. Employment relations are fraught with inevitable conflict because where there is more than one human being it follows that it (conflict) will surface. Hence, conflict leads to grievances. This study was intended to achieve the following objectives: - to conduct a literature investigation on grievance handling procedures in the DCS -to conduct an empirical investigation into employees' perceptions of grievance handling procedures in the DCS -to formulate recommendations for guidelines for the use of management III improving grievance handling procedures in the DCS According to the DCS's annual report of 200412005, more than half of the grievances lodged (54.98%) during that time were not resolved. This should be cause for concern for any organisation, especially one like the DCS where each and every employee needs to be at his/her best in terms of commitment and the employer should in turn have the leverage of trusting them (employees) all. Through the research questionnaire, this study gave employees an opportunity to interact with the researcher with a view to providing some guidelines for improving grievance handling in the DCS. Similarly, the study provided the researcher with an opportunity to find out from the respondents what, in their view, needs to be done to improve grievance handling in the DCS…

In this study the nature and extent of the sexual assault and rape of male sentenced offenders and awaiting-trial detainees in Pretoria Local Correctional Centre were investigated. Prison gangs, overcrowding of correctional centres, the involvement of correctional officials and the sexual orientation of the potential victim were highlighted as risk factors in the sexual assault and rape of male offenders and awaiting-trial detainees. As this study focused on both the victim and the offender of male-on-male sexual assault and rape, both victimological and criminological theories were used as a theoretical basis. Creswell’s dominant-less-dominant model of combination was used in this study, with the dominant model being the qualitative methodology, and the less-dominant model the quantitative methodology. Non-purposive sampling was used, as the researcher could not identify the victims and/or perpetrators of male-on-male sexual assault and rape individually. In order to obtain in-depth information on the research participants’ experiences of sexual activities and rape in the correctional centre, face-to-face structured interviews were conducted with one hundred research participants. After the analysis and interpretation of the data, it became evident that male-on-male sexual assault and rape, as well as consensual sexual activities, do occur in this correctional centre. Research participants highlighted four types of sexual engagements in this correctional centre, namely the need for emotional sex, survival sex, compliant sex and forced sexual acts. The reasons offered for the occurrence of rape in this correctional centre include that an agreement had not been reached between inmates and because of that the rape will take place, corruption by correctional officials, the involvement of prison gangs and the use of deception by the perpetrators. Six research participants revealed that they had been the victims of rape. All the victims were raped within days or weeks after their arrival at the correctional centre. Five of the victims did not receive medical treatment after the rape, and none of the victims received counselling or therapy after the rape. Five of the research participants reported that they had sexually assaulted and/or raped other inmates. Four of the perpetrators were awaiting trial for an aggressive offence (armed robbery) and one for a sexual offence (rape). The perpetrators forced their victims to engage in oral sex, inter-femoral sex and anal sex. The aims of the study were reached and recommendations for further research were also made. Emanating from the feedback of the participants as well as the literature review, the researcher developed an Offender Sexual Assault Protocol. The Department of Correctional Services can use this protocol to reduce and manage sexual assault and rape in male correctional facilities. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Social Work and Criminology / unrestricted

This thesis is an evaluation of two coping skills programs and their effects on inmates' mental health status. The original computer coping skills program designed for the general population was modified to address the specific needs of an incarcerated population.This thesis evaluated the differences in the mental health status of the two treatment groups compared with the control group and with each other to assess the effectiveness of the two programs. The results of this study showed substantial improvement in the mental health status for the two treatment groups. There are indications from this study that specialty software designed specifically for inmates may result in lower levels of depression than non-tailored software.

Torture has long been denounced by the international community; the need to protect citizens from abuse at the hands of the state is a principle enshrined in international law. One area where abuse is common is within the correctional system and as a result, there is a need for oversight in places of detention. The Optional Protocol to the UN’s Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) is an international human rights instrument that acts as a preventive measure to monitor all places of detention through regular visits. Supportive of the OPCAT since its adoption, Canada has considered signature/ratification since 2002 but has yet to commit. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that have led to a delay in Canada becoming State Party to the OPCAT despite adherence to the principles that this instrument embodies. A policy analysis framework was utilized to conduct stakeholder interviews and review government documents. The concept of agenda-setting received special attention and content analysis of media reports and a review of government legislative activity were conducted to provide insight into the prevalence of the issue on the public and political agendas. The author argues that while there are real challenges that policymakers must overcome, the absence of political leadership has resulted in stagnation in the decision-making process. As a result, the issue has disappeared from both the public and political agenda. In order for progress to be made, political will must be created and the impetus to act (‘re-setting the agenda’) must come from civil society in the absence of government engagement on this issue.

This paper examines the plight of the incarcerated mentally ill. After a consideration of the historical factors which have contributed to the current philosophy and pattern of services throughout North America, and specifically in British Columbia, the paper reports on a qualitative study using participant observation, informal and formal interviews, and Strauss' Constant Comparative Methods which was undertaken to identify the needs of the mentally ill individuals who are serving a term of imprisonment in the Health Care Centre of the Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre. Altogether there were eighteen formal participants. They included six mentally ill offenders, six correctional personnel, and six health care professionals. A critical analysis of the major findings -alienation, lack of organizational commitment, and the incongruencies between our social policies and practices - provided the basis for program recommendations. The challenge lies in the building of a vision that values humane treatment for the marginal members of our society. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

M.Phil. / An in-depth Employment Relations Management Audit conducted in Kutama Sinthumule Maximum Security Prison in order to assist both managers of the Department of Correctional Services and of Private Prison to efficiently and effectively apply sound Human Resource and Labour Relations policies and procedures. The study critically examines and discusses the perceptions of employees of the Kutama Sinthumule Maximum Security Prison. The researcher administered questionnaires to one hundred and fifty (150) employees out of a total of five hundred (500) personnel. Interviews were held with senior managers of Kutama Sinthumule Maximum Security Prison who provided vital information on issues pertaining to privatisation of prisons in South Africa

This thesis examines privatization of local level corrections in southern California.

In the past twenty years boot camps have been evaluated for effectiveness on reducing recidivism, crowding, and costs to the Departments of Corrections. Program and offender characteristics have been studied. This analysis intends to determine how well studied boot camps are, why there is so much disagreement in the findings, and what impact, if any, boot camp programming has had in corrections.

Summaries in English and Afrikaans / In the study below, the phenomenon of "maximum security prisons" is described as it is applied in various parts of the world, according to capita selecta. The phenomenon is described as it occurs in four countries, namely Australia, the United States of America, England and South Africa. The primary aim of this study is to obtain the Magister Artium degree. Secondly, it will shed more light on the treatment of prisoners who have to be detained in maximum security conditions as a result of their type of offence, length of sentence and conduct. The philosopical framework for the detention of maximum security prisoners is taken into account, while certain generic aspects unique to prisons are examined as well. This study is of universal importance because long-term prison sentences are on the increase, in spite of the fact that other punitive measures exist. / In die hieropvolgende studie word die verskynsel "maksimum sekuriteitsgevangenisse" soos wat dit in verskeie werelddele toepassing vind aan die hand van capita selecta beskryf. Die verskynsel word ten opsigte van vier lande, naamlik Australie, die V erenigde State van Amerika, Engeland en Suid-Afrika beskryf. Die beskrywing het in die eerste plek ten doel om die graad Magister Artium te verwerf. Ten tweede werp dit meer lig op die bantering van gevangenes wat weens hul tipe oortreding, vonnislengte en gedrag in maksimum sekuriteitsomstandighede aangehou moet word. Die filosofiese raamwerk vir aanhouding van maksimumgevangenes word in oenskou geneem, maar daar word ook na verskeie generiese aspekte eie aan gevangenisse gekyk. Die studie is van globale belang weens die feit dat langtermyngevangenisstraf besig is om toe te neem, ten spyte daarvan dat alternatiewe vorme van straf bestaan. / Penology / M.A. (Penologie)