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Using a mixed method design, this study explored financial knowledge, behaviors, and economic socialization in a sample of men (N = 155) incarcerated in a Midwestern county jail. A financial knowledge assessment, adapted from the FLLIP assessment (Zhan, Anderson, & Scott, 2006), was administered as well as a survey of financial behaviors and criminal history characteristics. Based on responses to the quantitative survey, a theoretical sample of participants (n = 12) was selected to participate in in-depth, qualitative interviews regarding economic socialization to the formal economy, particularly banks. Quantitative analyses revealed that the mean financial knowledge score for the sample was 59%, with Whites (M = .68; n = 46) scoring significantly higher than non-Whites (M = .55; n = 108). Factors related to financial knowledge were explored through bivariate and partial (controlling for age and race) correlational analyses. Hierarchical linear regression was conducted to determine the demographic factors, criminal history characteristics, and financial behaviors that predicted financial knowledge. Results revealed that having filed a tax return was the strongest predictor of financial knowledge. Qualitative analysis, using a grounded theory methodology, revealed that the majority of the men were distrustful of banks and other financial institutions. There appeared to be two pathways to distrust of banks: (1) anti-bank socialization through family and peers, which was solely experienced by the older Black men in the sample and (2) usage problems, which was the predominant pathway for the White men.

"Music in Czech Prison System" is an ethnomusicological study of the functioning of music in prison. The work focuses on the role of music in the everyday life of inmates and during the educational activities. It deals with the relationship of prisoners to music, musical activities in prison, and the approach of Czech Prison Service to musical activities. The aim of this master thesis is to present an image of the state of music and musical activities in the Czech prison system and to map out the forms in which the prison music appears, and to show what functions it has based on testimonies of convicts and prison staff. In prison, the environment of a so called total institution, people find themselves in extreme conditions that affect the wide range of their experiences. While imprisoned an inmate is faced with many changes that negatively affect the quality of his life. Research shows that music is a very important element for some prisoners, which can greatly influence their behavior and experience in prison and can compensate for their negative constraints. This master thesis attempts to capture whether and how convict's perceptions of music is different in an isolated environment as opposed to experiencing it outside the prison. What role does music play in the prison situation? And in what...

In hierdie studie word die ses Suid-Afrikaanse gevangenisbendes vergelyk met vyftien bendes uit oorsese lande of streke, tw. Amerika, Sentraal- en Suid Amerika, Kanada, Nieu Zeeland en Brittanje. As basis van vergelyking dien hul Oorsprong, Ontstaansdoel, Geslags- en Etniese samestelling, Eienskappe, Gesagstruktuur, Uitkenningstekens en Metodes van kommunikasie. Die verskillende bendes word ook vanuit Penologiese oogpunt beoordeel. `n Spesiale hoofstuk word gewy aan die uniekheid van die sogenaamde "Nommerbendes", tw. die 28, 27, 26, 25, 24 en 23 bendes. Verskeie aspekte soos die ontstaan, rituele en geheimhouding word volledig onder die soeklig geplaas. In die bespreking van die Nommerbendes word `n groot verskeidenheid geheime inligting vir die eerste maal geopenbaar. Die studie word afgesluit met enkele aanduidings van terreine wat roep om verdere navorsing. `n Vyftal bylaes dien om sekere aspekte van die navorsing en gevangenislewe verder toe te lig. / In this study the six South African prison gangs are compared to fifteen prison gangs from foreign countries, namely America, Central and South America, Canada, New Zealand and Britain. The comparison is based on their Origin, Original aim, Gender and Ethnic make-up, Characteristics, Authoritative structure, Gang identifiet·s and Methods of communication. The different gangs are then evaluated from Penological viewpoint A chapter is specially dedicated to the uniqueness of the so-called "Number Gangs", i.e. 28, 27, 26, 25, 24 and 23 gangs. Difierent aspects, such as their common origin, rituals and secrecy, are carefully described. In the discussion of the different Number gangs a large variety of secret information is exposed for the first time ever. The study concludes with some indicators for possible further research. Five Addenda serve to elucidate certain aspects of the contents. / Penology / M.A. (Penology)

La politique criminelle est liée à un mode de fonctionnement particulier rattaché aux différences conceptuelles et structurelles des systèmes pénaux. Ainsi les solutions au phénomène criminel sont spécifiques à un mode de construction sociale dont la cohérence et l’efficience exigent la compatibilité de la conception de la politique criminelle avec le système pénal.La construction d’une justice pénale se distingue par sa configuration exclusive et par une lecture particulière des institutions qui la compose. Elle se réalise à travers un enchainement intellectuel spécifique qui intègre sa filiation historique, politique et sociale pour former un ensemble de références communes. / The conceptual and structural differences between penal systems and the operating mode of the criminal policies linked to these differences.The solutions to the criminal phenomenon are specific to a social construction model, which its consistency and efficiency require the compatibility of the criminal policy and the penal system.The construction of a criminal justice is distinguished by the exclusivity of its configuration and by a particular lecture of its institutions. It is performed throw an intellectual chaining that incorporates its historical, political and social filiations to realize a set of common references.

The thesis focuses on problems of children with imprisoned parents in the Czech Republic to which our society pays only a low attention. The study points to specific problems which children have to deal with, to a children's unhealthy psychosocial development influated by a longtime separation from their parent and to an unsufficient observance of childern's rights, especially the regular contact with a parent. This work presents posibilites how children can stay in touch with a busted parent and describes supporting activites of Czech Helsinki Comitee. The empirical part of the thesis tries to clarify the influence of a parent's imprisonment on a quality of a relationship between parents and children and define main fields where changes would be needed. KEY WORDS Imprisonment, parenthood, child, children, family, parent, sentenced, contact, relationship, rights, prison, psychosocial development, Czech Helsinki Comitee, EUROCHIPS

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Otavio.pdf: 5597529 bytes, checksum: 26cf9aee16b6e7c3761b68567680535a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-25 / The penitentiary problematic represents one of the greatest challenges to be faced by social policies and jails. Prison labor, establishing itself as a point of convergence between several different purposes conferred, contemporaneously, the capital punishment, meets, among other meanings, those who drive for understanding as a "transformative" intervention protagonist instrument in the life of inmates. Despite the possible ambiguities that entails meaning of prison labor in their configurations, we perceive it in our study as a motivating factor for the reflections and their exploitation in combating the social vulnerability of prisoners and individuals targeted by criminal selectivity. In this sense, we seek from this thesis unveilings subsidies from individuals belonging to two opposite geographically regional realities able to provide a critical analysis of the impacts that the work in prison strikes with the perspectives of life of inmates in their paths of returning to social life. The locations of data collection - Institute of Penitentiary Administration of Amapá/AP and Canguçu State Prison/RS - were chosen with the purpose of establishing tensioners contrasts of influences that the social, economic and cultural characteristics of each region register in the operation of the prison job by their administrators, as well as their responsiveness on the part of inmates of the prison system. For the pursuit of these objectives, sociological contributions of Michel Foucault, David Garland and Gustavo Busso were fundamental on the transmutations regarding the mechanism of power relations between social control and criminal selectivity, and notions concerning social vulnerability, respectively / A problemática prisional representa um dos maiores desafios a serem enfrentados pelas políticas sociais e penitenciárias. O trabalho prisional, por constituir-se como um ponto de convergência entre inúmeros propósitos distintos conferidos contemporaneamente à pena de prisão, reúne, dentre outros significados, aqueles que se direcionam para o seu entendimento como instrumento protagonista de intervenção transformadora na vida dos condenados. Não obstante as eventuais ambigüidades que a acepção do trabalho prisional enseja em suas configurações, procuramos percebê-lo em nosso estudo como um elemento motivador de reflexões voltadas à sua instrumentalização no enfrentamento da vulnerabilidade social de egressos e indivíduos abarcados pela seletividade criminal. Neste sentido, buscamos através desta Dissertação desvelamentos a partir de sujeitos pertencentes a duas realidades regionais geograficamente opostas subsídios capazes de nos fornecer uma análise crítica acerca dos impactos que o trabalho prisional logra junto às perspectivas de vida dos egressos em suas trajetórias de retorno ao convívio social. As localidades de coleta dos dados Instituto de Administração Penitenciária do Amapá/AP e Presídio Estadual de Canguçu/RS foram escolhidas no desígnio de se estabelecer contrastes tensionadores das influências que as características sociais, econômicas e culturais de cada região imprimem na operacionalização do trabalho prisional por parte de seus administradores, assim como em sua receptividade junto aos apenados e egressos do sistema carcerário. Para a persecução de tais objetivos, fundamentais foram as contribuições sociológicas de Michel Foucault, David Garland e Gustavo Busso acerca das transmutações referentes aos mecanismos de poder, das relações entre o controle social e a seletividade criminal, e das noções concernentes à vulnerabilidade social, respectivamente

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MANOEL DO BOMFIM RODRIGUES DE SOUZA.pdf: 2061852 bytes, checksum: cf6ae4e15b2ab6b0046ff35e7ce7fcb3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-30 / This dissertation analyses the activities carried out by the Pastoral Carcerária (Prison Pastoral) at Pires do Rio since its foundation in 27th February 1997, giving particular emphasis to the outcomes of the reflections and actions undertaken by the Pastoral. This analysis demonstrates that violence is placed in all communities and societies and that, often, it is even legitimated by and deep-rooted in the religious phenomenon. Currently, the determinant causes of criminality are inbuilt in structural and social problems, but despite that there remain ideological subterfuges exempting the State, the system and the society itself. Looking at the results or the mentioned anomies that burden the convicts and the ex-convicts, it is possible to perceive that the genesis of this problematic is predominantly social. Inside this context, the religious phenomenon can become either an element of rescue and transformation of the convict him/herself, or a mere aid work aiming at corroborating the social order and current structures. The performance of Pires do Rio s Prison Pastoral became an inquiring element in this dominant paradigm encouraging a new attitude of society towards convicts and evicts.Through its work, the Prison Pastoral questions the prison system which is bankrupted; points out to solutions and agglutinate transforming actions. In this perspective, the prisoners supported by the Pastoral feel themselves agents of transformation of this reality retrieving their self-esteem, their citizenship, being and feeling no longer the segregated, the leftover of society. And that allows them to socially interact, turning them into protagonists of their own history. / Esta dissertação visa levantar os dados e as atividades da Pastoral Carcerária de Pires do Rio, desde sua fundação em 27 de fevereiro de 1997, ressaltando os desdobramentos das reflexões e ações desta pastoral. Esta análise demonstra que a violência está inserida em todas as comunidades e sociedades, muitas vezes, legitimada e arraigada no próprio fenômeno religioso. Na atualidade, as causas determinantes da criminalidade estão inseridas nas questões estruturais e sociais, mas permanece um subterfúgio ideológico, isentando o Estado, o sistema e a própria sociedade. Percebe-se, a partir dos resultados das ditas anomias que pesam sobre cada um dos presos e egressos, a gênese desta problemática é, predominantemente, social. O fenômeno religioso dentro deste contexto de presídio se torna um elemento de resgate e transformação do próprio preso ou de um mero assistencialismo para corroborar com a ordem social e estrutura vigente. A atuação da Pastoral Carcerária em Pires do Rio se tornou um elemento questionador deste paradigma dominante provocando uma nova postura da sociedade em relação aos presos e aos egressos. Em sua atuação, a Pastoral Carcerária questiona o próprio sistema carcerário, que se encontra falido, apontando soluções e aglutinando ações transformadoras. Neste prisma, os presos respaldados pela Pastoral sentem-se, eles próprios, agentes de transformação desta realidade, resgatando sua auto-estima, o seu ser cidadão; sendo não mais os segregados, os sobrantes da sociedade. O que lhes permite interagir socialmente, tornando-os protagonistas de sua história.

Esta pesquisa tem como enfoque a implantação do sistema prisional no Império brasileiro durante a vigência do Código Criminal do Império de 1830, quando a prisão, nas modalidades simples e com trabalho, passou a ser a punição por excelência. Com a aprovação deste código, fazia-se necessária uma reestruturação carcerária, uma vez que haveria o aumento do número de condenados; além disso, seria preciso construir estabelecimentos próprios para o cumprimento da pena de prisão com trabalho. Contudo, com o Ato Adicional de 1834, as questões relativas à construção de cadeias e casas de prisão com trabalho ficaram a cargo das províncias. Cabia às assembleias provinciais determinarem as verbas a serem gastas e o regime a ser seguido na instituição penal. Por isso, as especificidades históricas, sociais, políticas e econômicas de cada localidade se refletiram na estruturação prisional. Desse modo, nossa análise se deteve em três províncias com características bem distintas: uma do centro-sul (São Paulo), uma do norte (Pernambuco) e uma de região de fronteira (Mato Grosso). Assim, pudemos observar que, na província paulista, houve empenho na construção de uma Casa de Correção afinada com o modelo instituído na Corte; a cadeia da cidade de São Paulo abrigou a maior parte dos presos de toda a província, enquanto as cadeias do interior permaneceram mais com a função de casas de detenção. Em Pernambuco, foi estabelecida uma Casa de Detenção em Recife e várias cadeias centrais em toda a província, e usou-se do expediente de enviar o excesso de condenados para o presídio de Fernando de Noronha. Já em Mato Grosso, não foi possível construir um estabelecimento próprio para prisão com trabalho e, apesar de em alguns momentos terem sido aproveitadas as oficinas do Arsenal de Guerra de Cuiabá para cumprimento dessa pena, em geral, os presos foram submetidos à prisão simples. / This study focuses on the prison system in the Brazilian Empire while the 1830 Criminal Code of the Empire was in force and confinement only or with prison labor became the mainstream punishment regimes. Upon the approval of this code, a prison system restructuring was necessary for there would be an increase in the number of convicts; besides, appropriate buildings should be constructed for the imprisonment with labor sentence to be executed. However, the 1834 Additional Act put provinces in charge of issues related to the construction of jails and institutions with prison labor. Provincial houses of representatives determined the expenditures and the regime to be followed in the prison system. Therefore, historical, social, political and economic specificities of each place were reflected in the prison structuring. In this way, our analysis aimed at three provinces with very different characteristics: one in the Center-South of Brazil (São Paulo), one in the North (Pernambuco) and one in a borderland region (Mato Grosso). We noticed that, in the Province of São Paulo, effort was put forth in building a Penitentiary in line with the model established by the court; the São Paulo city prison received most of the inmates of all the province, while the countryside prisons were mostly provisional detention centers (jails). In Pernambuco, a House of Detention was established in Recife and several central prisons throughout the province, being the excess convicts sent to the military base of Fernando de Noronha. In Mato Grosso, it was not possible to build an institution suitable for prison labor and, although in some moments the workshops of the Cuiabá War Arsenal were used for the execution of this type of sentence, in general, prisoners were submitted to confinement only.

Esta pesquisa tem como enfoque a implantação do sistema prisional no Império brasileiro durante a vigência do Código Criminal do Império de 1830, quando a prisão, nas modalidades simples e com trabalho, passou a ser a punição por excelência. Com a aprovação deste código, fazia-se necessária uma reestruturação carcerária, uma vez que haveria o aumento do número de condenados; além disso, seria preciso construir estabelecimentos próprios para o cumprimento da pena de prisão com trabalho. Contudo, com o Ato Adicional de 1834, as questões relativas à construção de cadeias e casas de prisão com trabalho ficaram a cargo das províncias. Cabia às assembleias provinciais determinarem as verbas a serem gastas e o regime a ser seguido na instituição penal. Por isso, as especificidades históricas, sociais, políticas e econômicas de cada localidade se refletiram na estruturação prisional. Desse modo, nossa análise se deteve em três províncias com características bem distintas: uma do centro-sul (São Paulo), uma do norte (Pernambuco) e uma de região de fronteira (Mato Grosso). Assim, pudemos observar que, na província paulista, houve empenho na construção de uma Casa de Correção afinada com o modelo instituído na Corte; a cadeia da cidade de São Paulo abrigou a maior parte dos presos de toda a província, enquanto as cadeias do interior permaneceram mais com a função de casas de detenção. Em Pernambuco, foi estabelecida uma Casa de Detenção em Recife e várias cadeias centrais em toda a província, e usou-se do expediente de enviar o excesso de condenados para o presídio de Fernando de Noronha. Já em Mato Grosso, não foi possível construir um estabelecimento próprio para prisão com trabalho e, apesar de em alguns momentos terem sido aproveitadas as oficinas do Arsenal de Guerra de Cuiabá para cumprimento dessa pena, em geral, os presos foram submetidos à prisão simples. / This study focuses on the prison system in the Brazilian Empire while the 1830 Criminal Code of the Empire was in force and confinement only or with prison labor became the mainstream punishment regimes. Upon the approval of this code, a prison system restructuring was necessary for there would be an increase in the number of convicts; besides, appropriate buildings should be constructed for the imprisonment with labor sentence to be executed. However, the 1834 Additional Act put provinces in charge of issues related to the construction of jails and institutions with prison labor. Provincial houses of representatives determined the expenditures and the regime to be followed in the prison system. Therefore, historical, social, political and economic specificities of each place were reflected in the prison structuring. In this way, our analysis aimed at three provinces with very different characteristics: one in the Center-South of Brazil (São Paulo), one in the North (Pernambuco) and one in a borderland region (Mato Grosso). We noticed that, in the Province of São Paulo, effort was put forth in building a Penitentiary in line with the model established by the court; the São Paulo city prison received most of the inmates of all the province, while the countryside prisons were mostly provisional detention centers (jails). In Pernambuco, a House of Detention was established in Recife and several central prisons throughout the province, being the excess convicts sent to the military base of Fernando de Noronha. In Mato Grosso, it was not possible to build an institution suitable for prison labor and, although in some moments the workshops of the Cuiabá War Arsenal were used for the execution of this type of sentence, in general, prisoners were submitted to confinement only.