<p>This thesis examined the use of aggression by youth in Pollsmoor Prison during incarceration. Though the incarceration of children and youth is a problem internationally, it is particularly problematic in South Africa where these prison facilities are overcrowded and result in disturbing social practices. They are often at risk for assault, rape and other violent interactions, often within a structured and hierarchical prison gang system. The gang culture within prisons is a crucial factor contributing to its high levels of violence, and its examination is vital to the understanding of power and aggression as a form of survival in prison.</p>

<p>This thesis examined the use of aggression by youth in Pollsmoor Prison during incarceration. Though the incarceration of children and youth is a problem internationally, it is particularly problematic in South Africa where these prison facilities are overcrowded and result in disturbing social practices. They are often at risk for assault, rape and other violent interactions, often within a structured and hierarchical prison gang system. The gang culture within prisons is a crucial factor contributing to its high levels of violence, and its examination is vital to the understanding of power and aggression as a form of survival in prison.</p>

Les technologies informatiques – et plus spécifiquement les systèmes d’information – occupent une place de plus en plus importante au sein des administrations publiques, dans un contexte où la « modernisation » de l’Etat s’accompagne des mythes de la « transparence » et de la « rationalisation ». Si dans les pays anglo-saxons, les effets du couplage entre technologies et politique publique ont fait l’objet de nombreux travaux, en France, la nature des transformations induites par ce type de dispositif sur les façons de concevoir et mettre en œuvre l’action publique n’est que peu abordée. Cette thèse examine, à partir du cas du déploiement d’un système d’information dans l’institution judiciaire pénale, les effets produits par l’introduction de ces technologies d’information et de communication sur les rapports qu’entretiennent les différents niveaux d’action publique.Ce travail conjugue une approche de type « top down » – afin de saisir les logiques qui président à la conception et à la diffusion du système d’information – et une approche de type « bottom up » – permettant d’appréhender les logiques d’appropriation et d’usage qui se jouent localement. Il met notamment en exergue les paradoxes qui se révèlent au cours de la confrontation entre les normes véhiculées par le dispositif et les normes d’action locale, et leurs conséquences, notamment sur les objectifs de rationalisation, maîtrise et performance assignés aux systèmes d’information. In fine, cette thèse interroge la fonction politique de ce type de dispositif et discute du type de configuration que ces outils induisent entre les différents échelons de l’administration pénale au prisme des ses instrumentations. / Computing technologies – specifically information systems – occupy an increasingly important place within Public administrations and the government of public action, in a context where the myths of "transparency" and "rationalization" accompany "state modernization". In Anglo-Saxon countries, the association of technology and public policy have led to many studies, whereas in France, this kind of transformations based on the effects of technical tools on the designing and implementation of public action is barely approached. Based on the study of a criminal information system deployment in the Justice administration, this thesis examines the consequences of the introduction of information and communication technologies on the relationships between the different levels of public action.The “ top down ” and “ bottom-up ” approaches are both used in this analysis : one to capture the logic governing the design and the dissemination of the information system, and the other to apprehend the local logic of appropriation and use. It highlights in particular the paradoxes revealed through the confrontation between the standards promoted by the IT tool and the standards of local action, and their consequences, regarding the objectives of rationalization, control and performance of information systems. Ultimately, this thesis questions the political function of this type of tool and discusses the type of mutual interaction induced by these tools between different levels of penal administration through the prism of their instrumentations.

Magister Artium - MA / This thesis examined the use of aggression by youth in Pollsmoor Prison during incarceration. Though the incarceration of children and youth is a problem internationally, it is particularly problematic in South Africa where these prison facilities are overcrowded and result in disturbing social practices. They are often at risk for assault, rape and other violent interactions, often within a structured and hierarchical prison gang system. The gang culture within prisons is a crucial factor contributing to its high levels of violence, and its examination is vital to the understanding of power and aggression as a form of survival in prison. / South Africa

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T13:54:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SHEILA CRISTINA ROCHA COELHO.pdf: 2573480 bytes, checksum: 6f1f6e5eb0894b2932a87af23dd137d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-16 / The present study is an outcome of qualitative research carried out at the Center for Reeducation and Social Inclusion of Convicted Women CRSICW/CRISMA in São Luis, State of Maranhão, Brazil in the period of 2009 to 2010. The aim of the study was to investigate how the reeducation character of private penalty is organized and manifested in that institution. The objective unfolds into secondary ones as follows: to discuss studies which approach the reeducation proposal as the goal to the private penalty release; to analyze what treatment provided to women in the prison system setting; to identify the effects of confinement on the social identity of convicted women; to show how re-educatingactivities are organized at the Center for Reeducation and Social Inclusion of Convicted Women CRSICW/CRISMA; to identify how educative practices developed at CRSICW/CRISMA are manifested; to identify how the inmates perceive the institution re-educative work, and in what level they consider it to contribute to their social inclusion. Since the present work presents as the central issue the reflection on re-education in the prison environment, the analyses performed by Thompson (2002), Zaffaroni (2001), Baratta (2002) on the goals of penalty, are pertinent because they approach the implications of the penalty rehabilitating objective designated indistinctively of regeneration, re-adaptation, re-socialization, and re-education, taking into account that the prison environment borders on complex power relationships in a space characterized by all sorts of contradictions. We also present the contributions by Luckmanand Berger (1985) when dealing with primary and secondary socialization processes, which are important aspects for understanding the premise of the present study. Thus, the understanding that human beings are socially built, his character being unfinished and constituted along his lifetime, is the endpoint foundation of an education intended for humanizing and answering to the challenges posed by the prison reality. The study endeavored to understand that the convicted women at CRSICW/CRISMA observed the identity of good prisoners as a necessity to survive in prison and as a way of resisting to the criminal stigma, since this roll-play is not compatible with the desire to re-claim their social spaces. It was also verified that the women attribute greater importance to work and professional qualification than to schooling, since for them qualification prepares them for the job market representing, besides the opportunity to earn a wage, there is the possibility of penalty redeeming. Semi-structured interviews were used with a prison warden, a teacher and the Institution General Supervisor, and the application of Focal Group technique to inmates, as well as the study of pertinent bibliography, state, national, and international (FOUCAULT, 2008b)devices dealing with criminal enforcement with respect to assistance guaranteed to prisoners, educational assistance in especial, where we sought mainly to reveal the gender inequality traits in those discussions with respect to treatment of incarcerated women. / O presente trabalho é resultado de pesquisa qualitativa realizada no Centro de Reeducação e Inclusão Social de Mulheres Apenadas (CRISMA) de São Luís entre 2009 e 2010 com o objetivo investigar como se organiza e se manifesta o caráter reeducativo da pena privativa de liberdade naquela instituição. Esse objetivo se desdobra em outros secundários tais como: discutir estudos que abordam a proposta de reeducação como finalidade da pena privativa de liberdade; analisar qual o tratamento dado à mulher no contexto do sistema prisional; investigar a identidade que a mulher tem de si mesma e aquela que lhe é dada por outros; identificar os efeitos do encarceramento sobre a identidade social da mulher apenada; mostrar como se organiza a oferta de atividades reeducativas no CRISMA; identificar como se manifestam as práticas educativas desenvolvidas CRISMA; identificar como as detentas veem o trabalho reeducativo da instituição e em que medida elas consideram que este contribui para sua inclusão social. Uma vez que este trabalho apresenta como questão central a reflexão sobre reeducação no espaço prisional, as análises realizadas por Thompson (2002), Zaffaroni (2001) e Baratta (2002) sobre os fins da pena são pertinentes por abordarem as implicações do objetivo reabilitador da pena, designado indistintamente de regeneração, readaptação, ressocialização e reeducação, considerando que o ambiente carcerário remete a relações de poder complexas de um espaço caracterizado por contradições de toda ordem. Apresentamos também as contribuições de Berger e Luckman (1985) ao tratarem dos processos de socialização primária e secundária, aspecto importante para compreensão do termo nesse trabalho. Logo, o entendimento de que o ser humano é um ser socialmente construído, do seu caráter de inconcluso e inacabado que se constitui ao longo da sua existência, é a fundamentação dos fins de uma educação que se propõe a humanizar e responder aos desafios que se colocam na realidade penitenciária. A pesquisa sinalizou para entender que as mulheres apenadas do CRISMA absorveram a identidade de boas presas como necessidade de sobrevivência na prisão e como forma de resistência ao estigma de criminosas, pois a representação desse papel é incompatível com o desejo de restabelecer os seus espaços de pertencimento social. Verificou-se também que as mulheres atribuem à qualificação profissional e ao trabalho maior importância que a instrução escolar, pois, para elas, a qualificação as instrumentaliza para o mercado de trabalho e representa além da oportunidade de remuneração, possibilidade de remir a pena. O ciclo da pesquisa deu-se mediante a realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas com uma agente penitenciária, uma professora e a supervisora geral da instituição e a aplicação da técnica Grupo Focal junto às detentas, bem como o estudo da bibliografia pertinente, exame dos dispositivos (FOUCAULT, 2008b) em âmbito internacional, nacional e estadual que norteia a execução da penal, no que se refere às assistências que são asseguradas à detenta, especificamente à assistência educacional, onde buscamos principalmente desvelar nesses discursos as marcas das desigualdades de gênero no tratamento da mulher encarcerada.