Com o declínio do ideal de reabilitação, a partir principalmente de 1970, impulsionado pelo fracasso do modelo de exclusão para inclusão, muitas jurisdições ocidentais passaram a colocar a retribuição e a proporcionalidade no centro da decisão sobre a pena, com o objetivo de diminuir disparidades entre penas, ou seja, garantir que pessoas que cometem crimes de gravidade semelhante recebam penas semelhantes. Práticas que visam aumentar a uniformidade das penas em relação ao tipo penal como penas mínimas, aumentos obrigatórios de pena e obrigação de cumprimento de determinado tempo de pena antes de progredir de regime - envolvem, necessariamente, a imposição de obstáculos à individualização da pena pelo juiz e podem ocultar desigualdade maior: o tratamento semelhante de casos distintos. A pesquisa empírica desenvolvida no trabalho baseia-se na análise de casos concretos de roubo com causa de aumento (conduta responsável por mais da metade da população prisional brasileira) em que foi aplicada a pena mínima, de 5 anos e 4 meses de prisão. O estudo dos casos revelou situações concretas muito distintas entre si com a mesma pena, muitas vezes inclusive com a mesma fundamentação, o que aponta para uma padronização da decisão judicial nesses casos. A definição de pena em abstrato pelo legislador, em função da gravidade do crime, garante que pessoas condenadas pelos mesmos tipos penais recebam penas semelhantes, mas oculta inúmeras diferenças entre os casos concretos. Esta dissertação argumenta contra o uso da igualdade e da proporcionalidade princípios que têm papel fundamental para coibir o abuso do poder estatal para impedir o juiz de reduzir a pena ou de aplicar sanção alternativa à prisão, quando a pena prevista em lei não for adequada. Permitir maior individualização da pena não significa patrocinar um sistema de penas indeterminadas de prisão, mas sim atribuir a tarefa de escolha da pena a quem tem o caso diante dos olhos, sempre com critérios que guiem e controlem a decisão por motivação, até para que seja possível o desenvolvimento de um verdadeiro sistema de alternativas à prisão. / From 1970 onwards, with the decline of the rehabilitative ideal, driven in part by the failure of the social exclusion rehabilitation model, many jurisdictions turned to retribution and proportionality to answer the question of how much to punish. The intentions were noble: to reduce sentencing disparity, guarantying that offenses of similar gravity receive similarly harsh sentences. Strategies aimed at improving sentencing uniformity e.g. minimum mandatory sentences, mandatory aggravating factors and parole restrictions necessarily obstruct sentencing discretion and may conceal even greater inequality, consisting of similar treatment of unlike situated offenders. In my empirical research, I study sentencing decisions for robbery offenses (robbery convictions make up for more than half of Brazilian prison population) in which the same punishment has been decided upon (prison term of 5 years and 4 months) and, in a qualitative approach, analyze what they have in common and which differences the sentencing decision does not distinguish. I found many cases with very different concrete circumstances, with the same prison sentence and even with the same judicial reasoning, which points towards an unfair case aggregation. The definition of adequate punishment by the legislative body, based only on offense gravity, may make people convicted of similar offenses receive the same sentences, but conceals many differences between each case. I argue against the use of equality and proportionality ideals that once served exclusively for individual protection from the State to prevent the judge from reducing a sentence or from applying intermediate punishment in a given case. To allow greater individualization is different from favoring indeterminate sentencing. It means assigning the sentencing task to the person who has the case before them, always with guidelines that may control the decision through motivation, so maybe it finally becomes possible to develop a true system of alternatives to imprisonment.

Bullying is a persistent problem that in recent years has increased by 7 percent between theages of 11, 13 and 15 years. In order to work against bullying, the Education Act regulates thatschools must produce a new equal treatment plan every year. Another way to prevent bullyingis through two well-known models called Olweus' model and Ljungström's Farsta method. Thedifference between the two models is that Ljungström’s Farsta method focuses more on theindividual and reprimanding talk with the bully, while Olweus’ model has its focus on a moregeneral level with different types of interventions such as role play. The equal treatment plansand the two models can be considered to be characterized by underlying ideological ideas thatcan be made visible with the help of the curriculum theory's codes. The purpose of the study istherefore to highlight the underlying ideological ideas in equal treatment plans and to examinein what way dominant models against bullying can be related to these. The study’s data wascollected by qualitative content analysis of seven equal treatment plans and the twoaforementioned models. The collected data has been analyzed in a three-step analysis where ithas appeared that there are similar principles in both the equal treatment plans and in the actionmodels. Another conclusion is that they are dominated by the relativistic, civic and moralcurriculum codes.

This study aims to identify and analyse the actions the Swedish Armed Forces take working towards gender equality. This is done by examining various governing documents, reports, and media coverage. An interview with an employed women with relevant competence of the organisations active work and policies regarding gender mainstreaming is also conducted. These aspects are analysed using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and a liberal feminist theoretical approach. A brief background of previous research and history is also presented. As a conclusion of this study, the resulting framing and consequences of the Swedish Armed Forces gender mainstreaming is presented.

Les actionnaires sont au centre du gouvernement des entreprises. Bien qu'une certaine passivité leur soit parfois reprochée, simultanément, des craintes existent qu'une démocratie des actionnaires ne limite excessivement la gestion quotidienne des entreprises. Loin d'être incompatibles, ces deux remarques reflètent la diversité des actionnaires. En pratique, leurs attentes et leur comportement dépendent fortement de deux éléments : la part du capital ou des voix qu'ils détiennent de même que leur identité. Notre recherche porte sur la protection des actionnaires minoritaires dans le cadre d'opérations de prises de contrôle de sociétés publiques. Le sujet soulève une problématique d'une grande actualité dans le contexte canadien, contexte caractérisé par une concentration de l'actionnariat des sociétés publiques. Le sujet fait la conjonction de deux problèmes d'actualité. D'une part, la multiplication des prises de contrôle s'est accrue lors des dernières décennies et ce phénomène semble, plus que jamais, promis à un brillant avenir. D'autre part, le problème de la protection des actionnaires minoritaires se pose de façon toujours plus aiguë, dans le cadre des sociétés par actions de plus en plus importantes où leur rôle tend à s'amenuiser. / Shareholders are at the heart of corporate governance. While some reproach them a certain passivity, others, at the same time, fear that a shareholders' democracy could unduly limit the daily management of corporations. Far from being incompatible, these two statements reveal the wide diversity that surrounds shareholders. In practice, their expectations and their behavior strongly depend on two items: their share in capital or their share of votes, as well as their identity. Our thesis deals with the issue of minority shareholders' protection in the context of takeover operations involving public companies. This topic raises issues of great relevance and is particularly current in the Canadian context that is characterised by a shareholding concentration of public companies. Our topic brings together two current problems. On the one hand, the rise in takeover operations has, in the last decades, been significant and this phenomenon seems, more than ever, to be destined to a very bright future. On the other hand, the issue of minority shareholders' protection also arises, ever so sharply, in the context of growing shareholding companies where shareholders' role seems to be fading.

The purpose of this study is to explore how well prepared educators at pre-schools are to receive children with another gender identity than their biological gender. The focus for the study lies on the discourses that exist in the pre-school regarding gender norms and how they become visible through the language educators use in the equal treatment plans, that are a part of the pre-schools value works, and in talks between educators. My research questions are: ·         How does pre-schools describe their work with children with another gender identity than their biological gender? ·         Which discourses regarding gender norms does the pre-schools equal treatment plans and group talks with educators show? To answer these questions, I have used the analyses of five equal treatment plans and two group talks. By analysing the equal treatment plans and the group talks with the four strategies for anti discrimatory education from Kumashiro, by letting the strategies make the discourses visible, I have come to the result that gender identity is made invisible in the pre-schools by the educators. The equal treatment plans contain descriptions of the discrimination grounds but not how the educators work with these in the daily workings with the children, and the educators describe gender instead of gender identity in the group talks. In my discussion and conclusion I reason about the causes for this in relation to previous research about norms around gender and gender identity in pre-schools.

La récompense a toujours été associée à l’exercice d’un pouvoir sur autrui. Elle est le moyen, conjugué avec la sanction, d’obtenir d’un individu qu’il adopte la conduite attendue par un décideur. La récompense s’est en effet affirmée dans de nombreux systèmes disciplinaires tels que la discipline scolaire, militaire ou encore carcérale. Au sein des rapports de travail, des ouvrages de gestion des ressources humaines de même que des théories de « l’incitation » ou « des motivations » ont bien intégré l’idée d’une récompense comme moyen d’obtenir des salariés une conduite attendue par l’employeur. Sont organisés à cette fin concours d’entreprise ou classement des salariés en fonction de leurs performances ; sont distribués cadeaux, gratifications, primes d’ancienneté, primes d’assiduité, primes d’objectifs, ou encore stock options ; sont enfin favorisées les évolutions professionnelles au moyen de formations, de promotions ou de « parcours de carrière ». Le pouvoir qu’exerce l’employeur sur ses salariés comporte alors une dimension : la récompense. Pourtant, malgré sa banalité pratique et théorique, la récompense paraît avoir été injustement oubliée par le droit et les juristes du travail. L’objet de cette étude est de tâcher de combler cette lacune. La révélation d’un pouvoir de récompenser conduit à revenir sur une certaine conception, largement admise, selon laquelle le pouvoir en droit privé s’exprime par des actes juridiquement contraignants pour autrui. Après avoir livré une définition de la récompense, l’étude a pour ambition de déterminer les qualités de ce pouvoir et d’en décrire le régime. / Reward has always been linked to the exercise of power over others.Combined with sanction, this is the way a decision-maker uses to get somebody to behave properly.Reward has indeed become asserted in many disciplinary systems, such as school, military or prison discipline.Within work relations, human resources studies and “incitative”, or “motivations” theories have perfectly understood the idea of reward as a means for the employer to get the expected behavior from their employees.Thus, contests and employees rating based on their performance are organized; gifts, gratuities, seniority bonus, attendance bonus, premium bonus or stock options may be given; at last, career evolution is facilitated by vocational training, promotions, and career pathways.The power that an employer has on their employees will then have a dimension: reward. However, reward seems to have been unfairly forgotten by law and work jurists despite its practical and theoretical casualty.The aim of this study is to fill this gap.Rewarding leads back to a particular conception, which has largely been accepted, that power within private law is expressed by legally binding acts. After giving a definition of reward, the ambition of this study is to define the qualities of this ability, and then, to describe its functions.

Conçu de prime abord pour organiser la redistribution sociale entre les membres sédentaires de la communauté de solidarité étatique, l’État providence est par essence fermé. Les frontières de l’État providence, déterminées en principe nationalement et territorialement, servent à empêcher l’entrée des non-membres et à rendre difficile la sortie des membres. La dynamique de l’intégration négative, associée à la citoyenneté de l’Union, aboutit à mettre en cause les critères de nationalité et de résidence comme conditions d’accès à l’État providence, entrainant par-là le double mouvement de « dénationnalisation » et de « déterritoralisation » de l’État providence. Les considérations solidaristiques et financières qui sous-tendent le fonctionnement de l’État providence exigent toutefois de reconnaître à ce dernier une certaine forme de fermeture essentielle à son maintien. Le critère de « liens réels » est érigé en un critère principal de régulation des rapports entre les citoyens migrants et les États membres à l’égard des droits aux prestations sociales. Ce nouveau critère de rattachement basé sur l’intégration témoigne de l’effort de conciliation entre la logique de fermeture et l’exigence de l’ouverture de l’État providence. / Designed to organize the social redistribution between sedentary members of solidaristic community of the Nation State, Welfare State is by nature closed. Its boundaries prevent entry of non-members and render difficult exit of members. The case law which associates European citizenship with principles of freedom of movement and equal treatment prohibits, without justifications, national and residential criteria as conditions of access to Welfare State’s benefits, entailing then the denationalization and the deterritorialization of social systems of the Members States. Nevertheless, some form of closure has to be granted to Welfare State to preserve its specific foundation and function. The “real links” became the main tool to regulate relations between migrants and the Member States as regards access to social benefits. Based on concept of integration, “real links” criterion demonstrates effort to reconcile the opposite interests in this field.

O presente trabalho visa a estudar a regulamentação existente a respeito da relação de substituição de ações em operações de incorporação de sociedades e incorporação de ações. Para tanto, serão abordados os dispositivos legais, as posições doutrinárias e as interpretações da jurisprudência sobre o assunto no Brasil e em Direito Comparado. No primeiro capítulo, são estudados os institutos da incorporação e da incorporação de ações, analisando-se a natureza jurídica dessas operações e os procedimentos para realização de cada uma delas. No segundo capítulo, examina-se propriamente a relação de substituição de ações e sua natureza jurídica para, na sequência, analisarmos o arcabouço legal em que se insere a determinação da relação de troca de ações. Nesse contexto, são abordados os critérios, parâmetros e requisitos que norteiam a sua definição, bem como os mecanismos legais previstos pela legislação societária para compor os diferentes interesses envolvidos, notadamente aqueles dos acionistas minoritários e do controlador. O terceiro capítulo analisa algumas especificidades relativas às operações de incorporação que envolvem companhias abertas, operações de incorporação englobando sociedades sob controle comum, diferentes relações de substituição de ações entre ações de diferentes espécies e classes e, por fim, entre ações da mesma espécie e classe. Finalmente, a conclusão arremata as principais ideias discutidas ao longo deste trabalho. / This paper aims at analyzing the existing regulation regarding the share exchange ratio in mergers and merger of shares (incorporação de ações). For this purpose, this work will examine the legal provisions, the different doctrinal positions and case law understandings relating to this matter under Brazilian Law and Comparative Law. The first chapter of this paper presents the concepts of the merger and merger of shares and analyzes the nature of such transactions and the procedures necessary for their performance. The second chapter examines the share exchange ratio and its nature, followed by an analysis of the legal environment in which such share exchange ratio is determined. In this sense, this paper analyzes the criteria, parameters and requirements that drive the determination of the share exchange ratio, as well as the legal provisions established by Corporate Law to assure that all interests involved in such transactions are addressed, mainly those of minority shareholders as opposed to those of the controlling shareholders. The third chapter analyzes certain special situations concerning mergers and mergers of shares that involve publicly held corporations or corporations under common control. This chapter also analyzes special cases regarding the establishment of different share exchange ratios between different types and classes of shares and between shares of the same type and class. Finally, the conclusion of this work summarizes the main ideas discussed herein.

This essay is questioning if the state as an unsecured creditor in a bankruptcy proceeding, according to the principle of equal treatment, has the same rights as the other unsecured creditors. The principle of equal treatment means that creditors with unsecured claims are supposed to have mutually equal rights to dividends in a bankruptcy. In the Swedish bankruptcy law from 1987 there are recycling rules which means that some legal actions taken by the bankrupt debtor before the bankruptcy can be recycled to the bankruptcy estate. These rules do not apply on taxes. This essay analyzes whether the state should have this advantage or not. Another issue that’s discussed in this essay is whether or not the opinion of the Court of Appeal that a right of recourse on a claim for a paid Governmental wage guarantee exists before a bankruptcy should be established by the Supreme Court. This essay also analyzes if the rule which statutes that a company representative can become personally liable for the company tax debts should be abolished or not, since this rule means that the taxes on a larger scale than other claims are paid before the bankruptcy.

The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the working model, presented by The Swedish Floorball Federation, has been a good method to work with gender equality within Swedish floorball associations. The purpose of the The Swedish Floorball Federation’sproject was for its associations to develop a plan of action for how to act to be an equal treatment association pursuing an equal treatment sport. 13 associations answered the questionnaire study. The result show that the great majority clearly found a need of change to become more equally treating and most of those associations have somewhat of an idea how to realize those changes. 77 percent (ten associations) experience the use of the work material as satisfying. The associations most negative to the specific work material are the ones who seem to not even been using the material. Neither has those associations found a need of change to become more equally treating. Furthermore, the study suggests that there might be a lack of knowledge on the subjects of gender equality, gender mainstreaming and work of change overall. Conclusions are made that further studies on what qualitative substance the plans of action contains in comparison to the associations real need of change are recommended, as well as what accurate knowledge is needed for Swedish floorball associations to work sustainably with gender equality.