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L’analyse des procédures de reconnaissance préalable de culpabilité en droit français et en droit anglais peut, de prime abord, sembler poser un certain nombre de difficultés. En effet les modèles inquisitoire et accusatoire de justice pénale, de par leurs spécificités, ne paraissent se prêter que difficilement à une telle étude comparée. Cependant cette affirmation n’est plus à l’heure actuelle, en raison notamment de la construction européenne, entièrement exacte. Les modèles de justice pénale dans la plupart des Etats de droit ne répondent plus à la dichotomie initialement posée et tendent progressivement à converger vers un modèle commun au sein de procédures pénales mixtes fondées essentiellement sur les principes du contradictoire et du procès équitable. C’est dans ce contexte qu’il convient de se pencher sur la notion de reconnaissance préalable de culpabilité. Celle-ci tend à s’affirmer au gré des réformes législatives, devenant ainsi un véritable outil de politique criminelle visant à davantage d’efficacité de la procédure pénale, par une plus grande célérité dans le traitement des affaires pénales. Toutefois, en France comme en Angleterre, le recours croissant aux procédures de reconnaissance préalable de culpabilité nécessite une modification structurelle et organisationnelle de la justice pénale. En conséquence et s’agissant de l’évolution globale des systèmes de justice pénale, une tendance générale se profile érigeant l’autorité des poursuites au rang de pivot central du processus judiciaire. Des garanties doivent donc être offertes afin de conserver une procédure pénale d’équilibre, à la fois efficace et légitime. / The analysis of guilty plea procedures, in French and English laws, seems, on a prima facie ground, to raise some issues. The inquisitorial and the accusatorial model of criminal justice do not, due to their respective specificities, easily leave a breathing space for any comparative study. Yet, taking into account the European expansion, this assertion does not remain, nowadays, entirely true. Models of criminal justice, in most States governed by the rule of law, do not longer meet the initial dichotomy and gradually tend to be unified towards a standard model within “mixed” criminal justice systems essentially based on the adversarial and fair trial principles. In this perspective, the notion of pre guilty plea needs to be clarified. This notion asserts itself alongside with legislative reforms, thus becoming a genuine tool of criminal policy aiming at a better efficiency in the criminal process through a more prompt handling of criminal offences. Nevertheless, both in France and in England, the increasing resort to pre-guilty plea procedures requires a structural and organisational modification of criminal justice. As a consequence and regarding the global evolution of criminal justice systems, a general tendency has emerged introducing Public Prosecution authorities as the linchpin of the process. Safeguards should be provided in order to maintain a well-balanced criminal justice process, both efficient and legitimate.

This study was conducted with the aim to critically analyse how the crime of human trafficking for sexual exploitation can be identified in order to develop practical guidelines to be used during the identification of this crime in South Africa. In this study the researcher conducted a review of pertinent literature, both international and national, to gain an understanding of the problem being researched. The explanatory sequential mixed-method design was used with the main purpose to use the qualitative data to help explain in more detail the initial quantitative results obtained. The explanatory sequential mixed-methods design assisted the researcher to follow a procedure whereby the mixed-mode survey design was applied to collect data through questionnaires. These questionnaires were in the form of mailed, self-administered surveys and in-person interviews with human trafficking provincial coordinators, police officials and investigators of human trafficking within the nine provinces country wide during the first quantitative phase of this study. The data were analysed and followed up during the second qualitative phase with interview schedules that were used in semi-structured one-on-one interviews with the following persons: police investigators working at the SAPS organised crime units who dealt with and investigated cases of human trafficking where victims were trafficked for sexual exploitation; state prosecutors working at the National Prosecuting Authority who dealt with, identified and prosecuted human trafficking cases where victims were trafficked for sexual exploitation in South Africa; NGOs who work in the field of counter-trafficking and victim assistance; and an international police investigator who dealt with, identified and investigated human trafficking cases where victims were trafficked for sexual exploitation. The researcher is of the opinion that this study (analysing how the crime of human trafficking for sexual exploitation can be identified in order to develop practical guidelines to be used during the identification of this crime in South Africa) presents a significant contribution to the identification of human trafficking for sexual exploitation incidents in South Africa and subsequently presents practical guidelines that can be used during the identification of this phenomenon in South Africa. SUMMARY “Modern slavery – be it bonded labour, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery – is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.” (US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, 2010) This study was conducted with the aim to critically analyse how the crime of human trafficking for sexual exploitation can be identified in order to develop practical guidelines to be used during the identification of this crime in South Africa. In this study the researcher conducted a review of pertinent literature, both international and national, to gain an understanding of the problem being researched. Relevant international legislation which informs South African legislation was accordingly considered in order to explain the current legal framework that forms the foundation to address this problem. A survey was conducted to gain insight into the phenomenon of human trafficking in South Africa. Thereafter interviews were conducted in order to understand the meaning provided by individuals to the problem researched. The researcher also explored how the federal police in Australia address the specific problem relating to the identification and investigation of human trafficking, as they have appointed a leading human trafficking task team focusing on this phenomenon in specific. Links and associations were identified through the knowledge and facts gained in this study, exploring past events and theories developed from former research relating to this topic. This formed the foundation of the study in order to describe and explain future application of findings emanating from this research. The explanatory sequential mixed-method design was used with the main purpose to use the qualitative data to help explain in more detail the initial quantitative results obtained. The explanatory sequential mixed-methods design assisted the researcher to follow a procedure whereby the mixed-mode survey design was applied to collect data through questionnaires. These questionnaires were in the form of mailed, self-administered surveys and in-person interviews with human trafficking provincial coordinators, police officials and investigators of human trafficking within the nine provinces country wide during the first quantitative phase of this study. The data were analysed and followed up during the second qualitative phase with interview schedules that were used in semi-structured one-on-one interviews with the following persons: police investigators working at the SAPS organised crime units who dealt with and investigated cases of human trafficking where victims were trafficked for sexual exploitation; state prosecutors working at the National Prosecuting Authority who dealt with, identified and prosecuted human trafficking cases where victims were trafficked for sexual exploitation in South Africa; NGOs who work in the field of counter-trafficking and victim assistance; and an international police investigator who dealt with, identified and investigated human trafficking cases where victims were trafficked for sexual exploitation. Through a critical analysis of the identification process of the phenomenon of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, the purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of this phenomenon and establish, develop and provide practical guidelines, procedures and recommendations to the South African Police Service to identify these cases more successfully. The specific research objectives and research questions answered in this study to address the research aim were divided into five categories:  Explore and describe the phenomenon of human trafficking.  Determine the nature and extent of the legal arena to criminalise human trafficking, to prevent human trafficking, and to protect trafficking victims upon which South African legislation is based.  Explain how the identification of the phenomenon of human trafficking fits into the policing process.  Explore the current situation regarding the procedures followed to identify the phenomenon of human trafficking for sexual exploitation.  Develop practical guidelines, procedures and recommendations for police officials to identify human trafficking for sexual exploitation incidents more successfully. The trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual purposes lies in the expansion and ever growing sexual entertainment industry, which is most importantly a demand-driven phenomenon. The exploitation of victims for profit through the use of force, fraud or coercion remains the common denominator of this crime and the trade of human beings continues to evolve into new and more multifaceted forms of exploitation, using debt contracts and other means to coerce people for the purpose of profit gain. Women and children are perceived as the most exploitable and controllable and therefore are deemed to be the most in demand to contribute to this expanding and very competitive economic market driven by maximum profit. It is imperative and fundamental to have an understanding of the trafficking of persons as a crime committed against an individual and therefore it is of the utmost importance that police personnel serving in the South African Police Service (one of the key role players within the Criminal Justice System), are conversant with the means of trafficking, what it constitutes and what attributes and features this phenomenon includes. Through the development of practical guidelines, procedures and recommendations for police officials to identify human trafficking for sexual exploitation incidents more successfully, data obtained from both literature and interviews contributed immensely in the identification of incidents of human trafficking in order to prevent and address this crime successfully. The researcher is of the opinion that this study (analysing how the crime of human trafficking for sexual exploitation can be identified in order to develop practical guidelines to be used during the identification of this crime in South Africa) presents a significant contribution to the identification of human trafficking for sexual exploitation incidents in South Africa and subsequently presents practical guidelines that can be used during the identification of this phenomenon in South Africa. / Police Practice / D. Litt. et Phil. (Police Science)

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Cette étude a été rendue possible grâce aux bourses doctorales accordées à la première auteure par les organismes suivants : le Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines (CRSH), la Chaire interuniversitaire Marie-Vincent sur les agressions sexuelles envers les enfants (CIMV), l’Équipe violence sexuelle et santé (ÉVISSA) et le Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions sexuelles (CRIPCAS). Cette étude a également été soutenue par une subvention de recherche accordée par le Bureau d’aide aux victimes d’actes criminelle (BAVAC) du ministère de la justice du Québec accordée à Mireille Cyr. / Cette thèse visait à explorer l’apport de variables contextuelles sur le récit des enfants qui dévoilent une agression sexuelle de même que sur les suites judiciaires de leur dossier. Plus spécifiquement, le premier article examinait la valeur prédictive des caractéristiques de l’agression sexuelle (lien avec le suspect, présence de coercition, sévérité et fréquence de l’agression) et de son dévoilement (dévoilement volontaire ou accidentel, croyance et protection maternelle) sur la proportion de détails centraux dévoilés durant l’entrevue d’enquête. Les effets de l’âge et de l’adhésion au protocole d’entrevue du National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) ont également été contrôlés étant donné leurs impacts significatifs sur le contenu de l’entrevue. L’ensemble de ces variables ont été extraites de 116 entrevues et dossiers d’agression sexuelle considérés comme fondés par les policiers. Les résultats de la régression hiérarchique montrent que conformément à la littérature, l’adhésion au Protocole NICHD ainsi que l’âge de l’enfant étaient les deux plus importants prédicteurs de la proportion de détails centraux dévoilés. La coercition sous forme d’une combinaison de coercition verbale et physique, de même que la présence d’une mère qui protège son enfant suite au dévoilement étaient également des prédicteurs significatifs qui augmentaient la proportion de détails centraux. Ces résultats sont discutés, de même que les limites de l’étude et les pistes de recherche futures. Le deuxième article, quant à lui, explorait la valeur prédictive des caractéristiques de l’enfant, de l’agression sexuelle, de la garde partagée, du contexte de dévoilement, des preuves disponibles et de l’entrevue d’enquête sur les chances que le dossier soit considéré comme fondé par les enquêteurs et autorisé à procéder en cour criminelle par les procureurs de la couronne. Ces caractéristiques ont été cotées à partir d’un échantillon de 169 entrevues et dossiers d’agression sexuelle. Les résultats montrent que 117 des 169 dossiers (69%) de l’échantillon ont été considérés comme fondés par les enquêteurs. La régression logistique révèle que, en ordre d’importance, l’âge de l’enfant, le fait que le dévoilement soit accidentel, le choix du premier confident, la fréquence des agressions et la corroboration des faits par le suspect étaient des prédicteurs significatifs à la décision policière. De ces 117 dossiers fondés et soumis aux procureurs, 96 dossiers (82%) ont été autorisés par ces derniers à procéder en cour. Les résultats de la régression logistique révèlent en outre que, en ordre d’importance, le nombre de faits corroborés par le suspect, la protection maternelle, l’adhésion au protocole NICHD de même que le nombre de faits corroborés par le témoin augmentaient significativement la prédiction que les dossiers soient autorisés alors que le jeune âge de l’enfant diminuait cette prédiction. Ces résultats sont discutés ainsi que les limites de l’étude et les pistes de recherches futures. / This thesis aimed to explore the contribution of contextual variables to the formal disclosure of alleged child sexual abuse victims as well as to the legal proceedings of their case. More specifically, the first article examined the predictive value of child sexual abuse’s characteristics (relationship between the child and the suspect, reported coercion, type and frequency of abuse) as well as the disclosure context (purposeful or accidental disclosure, maternal belief and protective actions) on the proportion of central forensically relevant (CFR) details elicited during the investigative interview. The study also controlled for the well documented effects of the child’s age and use of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Investigative Protocol. All these variables were collected from 116 interview transcripts and child sexual abuse files. As expected, results from hierarchical regression showed that adhesion to the NICHD Protocol and the child’s age were the two strongest predictors of the proportion of CFR details obtained. Coercion (physical and verbal) as well as the presence of a protective mother also increased the proportion of CFR details obtained. Explanations for these results are discussed, as well as the study’s limitations and implications for further research. The second article explored the predictive value of the characteristics of the child, sexual abuse, shared custody, disclosure context, available evidence and investigative interviews on the investigators’ decision to substantiate the complaint and on the district attorney’s decision to authorize its proceeding in court. These characteristics were collected from 169 child sexual abuse police files and interview transcripts. Results show that 117 files out of 169 (69%) were classified as substantiated by the investigators. Logistic regression reveal that the child’s age, an accidental disclosure, the choice of the first person who received the disclosure, the frequency of the abuse, and the suspect’s corroboration were significant predictors in finding the case substantiated. Of these 117 substantiated files submitted to the district attorneys, 96 of them (82%) were authorized to proceed in criminal court. Significant predictors on the district attorneys’ level were the corroboration of the suspect, the protection offered by the mother following her child’s disclosure, the adhesion to the NICHD investigative Protocol and the corroboration of the witness which increased the chances of authorizing the case whereas the child’s age diminished it. The results are discussed, as well as well as the study’s limitations and implications for further research.

The investigation of crime is one area in which the South African Police Service is measured on. There is no doubt that poor application of investigation methods results in acquittal of criminals or, at worst, failing to identify the perpetrator. In murder cases, the response from the communities who are directly affected is usually unpleasant and intolerable. This is so because murder is a crime against human life. One death in the family will have significant, undesirable implications to the family involved and, to a certain extent, the community. Violent crime such as murder has a negative effect, not only on the family who has lost the loved one, but also has a severe direct impact on the economy. For instance, no potential investors would want to associate themselves with a country where the incidence of violent crimes has become the norm and where the government appears to be reluctant to take tangible actions to remedy the situation. For years, the South African Police Service applied one methodology in murder investigations, even though their crime statistics showed that this type of crime was constantly increasing and required drastic steps to curb it. This study gives a detailed analysis of the prosecution-led investigation model and its feasibility in murder cases. This research was conducted on the basis that this model appears to work successfully in commercial crimes, judging by the conviction rates reported annually by the National Prosecuting Authority. The study discusses the current investigation model used by the South African Police Service in the investigation of murder and compares it to an intelligence-led investigation model. It then examines the meaning of the prosecution-led investigation. Finally, international experiences in terms of criminal investigation and prosecution procedures are discussed and compared with those of South Africa. The researcher explored the models from the selected countries and interviews conducted were used as a foundation for describing and explaining the future application of the findings emanating from this research. Using the qualitative approach, data was gathered by means of a literature review and qualitative interviews with the sampled participants to answer the research questions. The researcher is of the view that this study (analysing the prosecution-led investigation model in murder cases) presents a significant contribution to the development of practical guidelines that can be used to effectively and efficiently investigate murder cases. / Police Practice / D. Phil. (Criminal Justice)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:23:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Cristina de Souza.pdf: 914894 bytes, checksum: 6b9ebe4140c50c65ad499f759f3eba22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-10 / In order to understand the formation of the justice system and its relationship to democracy as a fundamental condition for the realization of human rights, this work aims to deepen the debate on Criminal Justice through the analysis of existing formal and informal mechanisms of social control institutes of law, from the study of historical changes related to the formation and consolidation of democratic institutions, to analyze the criminal law of postmodernity and excessive use of authoritarian repressive instruments of law in democratic States as a way to curb crime that considered an enemy of society, with the construction of the debate on the punitive power of the State and its current monopoly of violence, addressing the extent to which this is legitimized and justified in Democratic States Law / Com o objetivo de compreender a formação do Sistema de justiça e sua relação com a democracia como condição fundamental para a efetivação dos direitos humanos, este trabalho visa a aprofundar o debate sobre Justiça Criminal por meio da análise dos mecanismos formais e informais de controle social existentes nos institutos do direito, a partir do estudo das mudanças históricas relacionadas com a formação e consolidação das instituições democráticas, para se analisar o direito penal da pós-modernidade e o uso desmedido de instrumentos repressivos autoritários em Estados Democráticos de Direito como forma de conter a criminalidade daquele considerado inimigo da sociedade, com a construção do debate sobre o poder punitivo do Estado e o seu atual monopólio da violência, abordando até que ponto esta se legitima e se justifica em Estados Democráticos de Direito

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bartira Macedo de Miranda Santos.pdf: 435044 bytes, checksum: 63a71fed71cf98856b24594c5e7d5159 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-10 / This research seeks to demonstrate the significance of social protection ideas that have shaped the criminal justice system like the Criminal Code and the 1940 s Code of Criminal Procedure. It discusses the ideas of social defense made by the Italian Positive School, as justification of the punitive system. For this school, the social defense is the reason of criminal justice. Given the biological determinism of the born criminal, Lombroso, Ferri and Garofalo are committed to building a criminal science that is able to promote an effective social defense. Appart from the metaphysical approach of the classics and its theorizing abstract regarding the legal concept of crime, the Italian positivists sought to understand the causes of crime within the criminal person, replacing the deductive method by the inductive one. From 1884 the anthropological positivism was widely spread in Brazil. By not having their proposals adopted by the Criminal Code of 1890, the positivists have used this law, the fame of "the worst of all the known codes . Originally from the legal discourse, the social defense shall be incurred, since the first decades of the twentieth century, as a movement of Criminal Policy with a strong influence on the laws of the period, including the Brazilian laws / Esta pesquisa busca demonstrar o significado das idéias de defesa social que modelaram o sistema penal brasileiro, com o Código Penal e do Código de Processo Penal de 1940. Aborda as idéias de defesa social formuladas pela Escola Positiva Italiana, enquanto justificação do sistema punitivo. Para esta escola, a defesa social é a razão da justiça penal. Diante do determinismo biológico do criminoso nato, Lombroso, Ferri e Garofalo se empenharam em construir uma ciência penal que fosse apta a promover uma eficaz defesa social. Afastando-se da abordagem metafísica dos clássicos, com suas teorizações abstratas acerca do conceito jurídico de crime, os positivistas italianos buscaram compreender as causas do crime na pessoa do criminoso, substituindo o método dedutivo pelo indutivo. O positivismo antropológico teve ampla divulgação no Brasil, a partir de 1884. Por não verem as suas propostas adotadas pelo Código Penal de 1890, os positivistas empregaram a este diploma, a fama de o pior de todos os códigos conhecidos . Oriunda do discurso jurídico, a defesa social passa a se constituir, desde as primeiras décadas do século XX, como um movimento de Política Criminal, com forte influência sobre as legislações da época, inclusive a brasileira

This research assessed the perceived and actual roles of Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) in their community and in working with offenders and their families in relation to the Criminal Justice System (CJS). Additionally, the research study evaluated this issue on the local level in an attempt to ascertain whether FBOs still do what they have historically been perceived to do or whether their involvement with the CJS has shifted in any way. Particularly, the research study also examined perceptions of staff members from FBOs regarding services and support provided for families of offenders. The sample was selected using a combination of convenience and snowball sampling. Group sizes ranged from 2-5 participants. A total of 14 participants interacted in the focus groups. Each focus group lasted approximately one hour. All focus groups were recorded using a digital audio recording device, and transcriptions of the focus groups were prepared. The transcripts were prepared using a combination of edited and intelligent transcription techniques. Researchers reviewed the transcriptions for recurring themes. Twenty-four initial themes were generated. Researchers then reviewed the themes for redundancy which resulted in 10 themes being identified. The transcripts were then coded based on the 10 revised themes. These themes focused on issues related to the perceived and real roles of FBOs in relation to the Criminal Justice System. As expected, the researchers found that FBO programming difficulties and concerns (f = 65) and misperception and lack of church involvement in the lives of offenders and the CJS (f = 50) were the most recurring themes. Miscommunication and lack of connection between the CJS and community was found to be the third most recurring theme (f = 15), followed closely by lack of reunification of offenders with their families (f = 14). Perceptions of participants such as clergy and mental health practitioners confirmed the researcher’s expectations that offenders often express deep anxiety and concern over being separated from their families. Thus, current programming efforts may reflect a lack of emphasis on services designed to rejoin offenders with their families or reintegrate them in family systems based on participants’ perceptions. Analysis of the data is ongoing. Researchers will return to the data to further discuss theme coding and to determine if additional themes emerge. All identified themes will be further assessed for inter-rater reliability.

African American women, in particular those who are economically marginalized, are disproportionately subject to surveillance by social service and criminal justice agencies (James et al., 2003) and are vulnerable to race- and gender-biased policy implementation (Chibnall et al., 2003; Zerai, 2002). They also experience population-specific personal (Ehrmin, 2001, 2002), social (Riehman, Iguchi, Zeller, & Morral, 2003; MacMaster, 2005), and economic barriers (Tighe & Saxe, 2006) to accessing and entering substance abuse treatment services. These factors contribute to lower rates of treatment entry follow-through (Siqueland et al., 2002) and higher drop-out rates (Scott-Lennox, Rose, Bohlig, & Lennox, 2000) than women from other racial and ethnic groups. This qualitative study explored African American women’s perceptions of mandated referral to substance abuse treatment and the impact of those perceptions on their treatment entry. The sample included 17 women age 18 years and over who were currently enrolled at three gender-specific treatment programs (one intensive outpatient and two residential) in a major southeastern urban area. This naturalistic inquiry (Lincoln and Guba, 1987) was informed by Black feminist epistemology (Collins, 2000) in accordance with recommendations for culturally sensitive research with women of color (Landrine, Klonoff, & Brown-Collins, 1995). Participants completed one-time, in-depth (one to two hour) interviews in which they were invited to explore their experiences with mandated substance abuse treatment referrals from state agencies (child protective services and the criminal justice system). Results indicate that participants generally perceived the treatment mandate as helpful. However, they also indicated that their willingness and ability to follow-through with treatment entry were influenced by multidimensional (Marlowe, Merikle, Kirby, Festinger, & McLellan, 2001) and interacting factors. Participants identified influence factors that included intra- and interpersonal concerns, the quality of interactions with state agencies, and treatment-specific issues. Results are presented along with suggestions for counselors and future research.