Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:21:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vianey Mreis Lopes Junior.pdf: 327076 bytes, checksum: 06ef2cf33fc3f1ef76da6f643d9f461d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-17 / The present paper intends to demonstrate the victim´s historical position in the penal process and their evolution as a character in the penal process, starting at the time of their greatest protagonism, with the revenge, up to their present situation at the time of the State´s monopoly, where the victim must be supported by the State and compensated by the delinquent for the crime. We intend to demonstrate that the victim, under the protection of the Rule of Law and the Principle of the Dignity of the Human Being, which are eternity clauses in the federal Constitution of 1988 and guiding lines of this study, in face of the moral and material damages suffered as a result of the crime needs to have those damages, both moral and material, repaired, the delinquent being required to do so as well as the State, which must provide the conditions for their total rehabilitation. The study of the legislative reform introduced by Law 11.719/2008, interpreted under the constitutional realm, supported by principles and jurisprudence, still incipient, proves those aspects with their clear re-valuation, in this context. Furthermore, we point out the need for extensive action by the Criminal Court, which had added to its scope of actions the ascertainment of the defendant´s responsibility as related to the victim´s damages, with no offense to the already accomplished constitutional principles of the penal process, and the need for the consequent determination of an effective compensation so that the victim´s claims can be satisfied, so that the international treaties can be validated, and so that the civil court can be released of the extra burden of unnecessary filing for new requests of compensation / O presente trabalho analisa a posição da vítima ao longo da história, ora como principal protagonista do processo, ora afastada e substituída pelo Estado Juiz. A Constituição Federal de 1988, ao eleger o Estado Democrático de Direito sob a luz do Princípio da Dignidade Humana após estabelecer inúmeras garantias, revalorizou a vítima da criminalidade violenta, trazendo explicitamente a obrigação de amparo e assistência. A vítima foi revalorizada por extensa legislação ordinária posterior à Constituição e finalmente com a Lei 11.719/2008 de 11/06 de 2008 que tratou de sua indenização em sede do Juízo Criminal, na busca por reparação de danos sofridos em virtude do crime. A reparação agora determinada pelo Juízo Criminal com evidente intenção de celeridade e eficiência, aferindo o dano e estipulando a indenização, com evidente alargamento de sua competência. Neste diapasão ainda estuda-se a forte corrente que gradativamente propõe ser o Estado concorrente e solidário na responsabilidade pela reparação dos danos decorrentes dos danos sofridos pela vítima oriundos da criminalidade violenta

Most women with substance-abuse problems are also subjected to violence, constituting a serious societal challenge. The social support they receive has been found insufficient and a need to strengthen knowledge/skills within social services has been highlighted. Using Christies (1986) ’ideal victim’ theory as a framework, the purpose of this study was to describe social workers self-perceived competence in relation to female clients subjected to violence, and to explore their attitudes regarding women with substance-abuse problems. Social workers managing female substance-abuse cases were recruited from all municipalities of Dalecarlia, Sweden. The study was conducted based on a quantitative approach and questionnaires were used for data collection. Participants’ responses indicated that the majority perceived their competence to be good. Furthermore, participants tended to endorse non-ideal victim descriptors of women with substance-abuse problems, and while the largest proportion (47,4%) agreed with the statement that violence should be considered secondary to substance-abuse, a similar proportion (42,1%) disagreed. These findings suggested that inadequate competence within social services does not serve as an explanation for the insufficient social support. Instead the study highlights attitudes and organizational conditions within social services in relation to the women. / Våldsutsatthet hos kvinnor med missbruks- eller beroendeproblematik är ett utbrett samhällsproblem. Stödet till dessa tycks vara bristfälligt och behovet av ökad kompetens inom socialtjänsten har lyfts. Syftet med denna studie var att mot bakgrund av Christies (1986) teori om det idealiska offret beskriva missbrukshandläggare i Dalarnas kompetens i relation till våldsutsatta kvinnliga klienter samt att undersöka deras uppfattningar gällande kvinnor med missbruk/beroende. Studien utgick ifrån en kvantitativ ansats och datainsamlingen genomfördes via en enkätundersökning. Handläggarnas svar indikerar att majoriteten upplevde sig ha en god kompetens. Vidare tenderade handläggarna att kategorisera kvinnliga klienter som icke-idealiska offer, och medan den största andelen (47,4%) instämde på påståendet att våldsutsatthet är sekundär till missbruk/beroende hos klienter tog en liknande andel (42,1%) avstånd. Resultatet indikerar att bristande kompetens inom socialtjänsten inte är förklaringen till ett bristfälligt stöd och lyfter istället uppfattningar samt socialtjänstens organisatoriska förutsättningar i relation till målgruppen.

This diploma thesis is about the pupils who have been victims of bullying during their studies at the primary or the secondary schools and who have been forced to transfer to another school because of this problem. The aim of this diploma thesis is to make a preview into the problematic of bullying related to the transfer of the pupil to another school, further off submit the overview of the factors, which can influence the success of this particular solution of the bullying issue. The first part of diploma thesis focus on explanation of the ground concepts related with bullying, as the personality of aggressor and victim, directions and forms of the bullying on the school, development of bullying and participators of it. The second part is about the consequence and the prevence of bullying. In the third part are mentioned previous researches related to repetition of bullying at the same actors and further off there is submitted comparison of individual case reports. The method of research was case study, in which was analyze and compare statements of respondents, who happend to be bullying during their schooling and transfer on the another school. The research sample counted eleven respondents of different age and gender obtained by a criteria selection. The results of the research show, that...

Les conflits armés ne sont plus ce qu’ils étaient. D’aucuns annoncent la disparition pure et simple de ceux-ci au profit de formes inédites de violence marqués par la multiplicité des acteurs, par la multiplicité des motifs et par la généralisation de nouvelles stratégies et tactiques. Ainsi, le droit international classique opposant la situation de paix à la situation de conflit armé devient peu efficace. Le droit des droits de l’homme étant conçu pour les temps de paix alors que le droit humanitaire est aménagé pour les temps de guerre, la situation de violence reste en deçà du lex lata.Pourtant, entre ces deux situations, s’interpose des situations de violence dont le régime juridique existant n’est pas suffisamment adapté ou du moins n’est pas assez efficace pour protéger les droits des personnes affectées par les situations de violence interne. L’inadaptation des organes de contrôle du DIDH, jonchée de clauses dérogatoires, de nature plutôt réactive et lente, est complétée par des mécanismes de la responsabilité pénale individuelle peu efficace.Cette thèse ambitionne de poser les balises de la domestication de la violence par le droit, dans la perspective de la protection d’un seuil inaltérable « d’humanité ». De la violence à basse intensité à la violence à haute intensité, notre recherche prend au sérieux ces situations de violence et réfléchit, à travers une approche pragmatique et normative, sur le droit désirable et mécanismes susceptibles de réguler la zone « grise » des situations de violence. S’appuyant sur la diversité des actes de violence répertoriés dans la région des Grands Lacs, cette recherche permet de constater que ces violences ne sont pas soumises à une indétermination fondamentale. Le droit humanitaire est tantôt relayé, tantôt suppléé et tantôt supplanté par les nouveaux mécanismes régulateurs des situations de violence. / The armed conflicts are no longer, what they used to be. It is usually stated that armed conflicts have disappeared and have been replaced by other new forms of violence involving multiplicity of actors, multiplicity of motives and overlapping strategies and tactics. In fact, the classical international law makes a clear distinction between the peaceful and armed conflicts situations. The human rights law was conceived to deal with peaceful situations while humanitarian law deals with times of war. The inadequate monitoring organs of the international human rights law which comprises derogatory clauses supplemented by individual liability criminal mechanisms not effective is the gape.However, between these two situations, there is others situations of violence upon which the existing legal system is not adapted or at least, is not effective to protect the rights of internal violence victims.This thesis intends to point out the regulation if violence by means of law in order to guarantee a permanent doorway for the protection of humanity. From less intensive violence to more intensive violence, this study gives due consideration to both situations of violence and through a normative and pragmatic approach, it gives an insight into the desirable law and appropriate mechanisms which can regulate the « grey » matter resulting from violence. Basing on the variety of charges of violence committed in the Great Lakes Region, this research work shows that these types of violence are not subject to a fundamental indefinite law. The humanitarian law is relayed, replaced or supplanted by new mechanisms regulating the situations of violence.

Although all sexual assault survivors have the potential to experience victim blame, Black women and transgender survivors of sexual assault face higher rates of victim blame and discrimination than their non-minority counterparts. This increased blame may be related to stereotypes about these individuals that do not align with “real” rape victim stereotypes. To understand how minority survivors of sexual assault are stereotyped, I investigated the intelligence and promiscuity ratings of minority survivors of sexual assault compared to their non-minority counterparts. Moreover, I investigated how implicit prejudice moderated the stereotyping of survivors. Participants read crime alerts that varied the race of the survivor (Study 1) or the gender identity of the survivor (Study 2). In Study 1, participants read crime alerts describing the sexual assault of a Black woman and a White woman. In Study 2, participants read crime alerts describing the sexual assault of a transgender man, a transgender woman, and a cisgender woman. After each alert, participants indicated the extent to which they believed the sexual assault survivor was intelligent and promiscuous. Black women survivors of sexual assault were stereotyped as less intelligent, but not more promiscuous than White women survivors. Unexpectedly, transgender survivors of sexual assault were not stereotyped differently than cisgender women survivors. Finally, implicit prejudice against Black people (Study 1) or transgender people (Study 2) did not moderate the effect survivor minority status had on stereotyping. I discuss future directions in the study of stereotyping and victim blame of minority sexual assault survivors. Materials, data, and analysis code are available online at https://osf.io/79kfh/?view_only=363a6941952d461eb918119ec76ff6d4

<p>Vad händer vid en medling och hur upplevs detta möte av de parter som ingår i medlingsprocessen? Denna fråga är utgångspunkten i föreliggande uppsats vilken belyser gärningspersoners och brottsoffers upplevelser samt den förändrade syn på sig själva och den andra parten vilken medlingen bidragit till. Medling vid brott innebär att gärningsperson och brottsoffer möts och samtalar om sina upplevelser av brottet. Denna uppsats har med intervjuer som bas studerat parternas egna upplevelser av medlingssituationen. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna för uppsatsen är George Herbert Meads ”Den Generaliserade andre”, Thomas Scheff och Susanne Retzingers skambegrepp, Erving Goffmans samspelsteori samt ”Det intersubjektiva tredje” vilket beskrivs av Samuel Gerson. Med hjälp av dessa teorier har gärningspersonerna och brottsoffrens upplevelser av medling analyserats, analysen visar att medling av båda parter beskrivs som ett möte där en motpart gett dem insikt om den andres upplevelse av brottet. Denna insikt resulterade i en för gärningspersonerna förändrad livssyn samt för brottsoffren en känsla av att få brottet utrett. Slutsatsen som dras i denna uppsats är att medling vid brott bidrar till att ge gärningsperson och brottsoffer en ny bild av händelsen och att denna nya bild leder till eftertanke kring det egna beteendet samt en förståelse för hur det egna agerandet påverkar andra.</p> / <p>What happens at a victim-offender mediation and how is this process perceived by the parties involved? That is the starting point in this paper illustrating perpetrators and victims’ experiences and their changing views of themselves and of the other party given by the mediation process. Criminal mediation means that the perpetrator and the victim meet to discuss their view of the crime. This paper, based on interviews, studies both parties own experiences of the mediation. The theoretical starting points of the paper are George Herbert Mead´s "the Generalized Other”, Thomas Scheff´s and Susanne Retzinger´s shame and reintegrative shame concept, Erving Goffman´s interaction ritual theory and "the concept of the third” described by Samuel Gerson. Perpetrators and victims experiences of the mediation have been analyzed by means of these theories, the analysis shows that mediation is described by both parties as a meeting giving them insight into the other parties’ experience of the crime. This insight resulted in a changed view on life for the perpetrators and a feeling of having the crime investigated for the victims. The conclusion in this paper is that victim-offender mediation gives the perpetrator and the victim a new view of the incident, resulting in reflection about their own behaviour and an understanding of how their acting affects others.</p>

This doctoral thesis explores the use of surveillance images and discourses of surveillance in the Swedish press. Questions concerning surveillance appear frequently in the news today. The ongoing »War on Terror« has generated numerous news reports informing their audiences how surveillance technologies will protect society, prevent terrorist attacks, and ensure security. The purpose of the study is to examine representations of surveillance in Swedish newspapers, more specifically, how they use surveillance- and amateur images in their reporting. In order to carry this out, the thesis sets up two areas of concern: news on terrorism and news on police violence. The questions that produce the field of inquiry relate to how discourses of surveillance are articulated in text and image. They also concern construction of social identities related to reproduction of power relations, normality, and deviance. Research material used in this study consists of journalistic texts and visual images published in mainly four major Swedish newspapers; Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet. A qualitative research strategy was undertaken inspired by discourse analysis. The analysis focuses on four major issues: representations of terrorists, intensified surveillance, victims, and representations of police violence. The analysis concentrates on surveillance images that were used by news media to visually represent the terrorists involved in the so called »London bombings« in 2005. The thesis also highlights how politicians and other experts become the predominant subjects who proclaim the need for a more modern, efficient, and enhanced surveillance technology. A further issue ofinterest concerns media representations of victims and especially how the construction of victims reproduces normality, and further, how victimisation is related to surveillance. The newspapers used amateur footage from ‘the bomb scene’ in ways that represent the victims, not as objects, but as active agents participating in an act of surveillance. How the public become represented as victims of the surveillance society is examined. Dystopic stories about negative aspects of surveillance including islamophobia and fear of intrusion of privacy emerge as major themes. Finally, the study seeks to connect surveillance to resistance. Different media events on police violence are discussed in the light of events that have been filmed by amateur video or surveillance cameras. Surveillance in a mediated context is a complex field with many different and contradicting meanings and connotations. However, it is clear that surveillance links up with security, resistance, power and control, intrusion of privacy, and above all, to the reproduction of social differences between Us and Them. The news media seems to promote a public discourse of fear, which may contribute to legitimisation of both present and future demands for intensified surveillance. Nonetheless, mediated surveillance may also help to resist and challenge power hierarchies in society and promote social change.

Vad händer vid en medling och hur upplevs detta möte av de parter som ingår i medlingsprocessen? Denna fråga är utgångspunkten i föreliggande uppsats vilken belyser gärningspersoners och brottsoffers upplevelser samt den förändrade syn på sig själva och den andra parten vilken medlingen bidragit till. Medling vid brott innebär att gärningsperson och brottsoffer möts och samtalar om sina upplevelser av brottet. Denna uppsats har med intervjuer som bas studerat parternas egna upplevelser av medlingssituationen. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna för uppsatsen är George Herbert Meads ”Den Generaliserade andre”, Thomas Scheff och Susanne Retzingers skambegrepp, Erving Goffmans samspelsteori samt ”Det intersubjektiva tredje” vilket beskrivs av Samuel Gerson. Med hjälp av dessa teorier har gärningspersonerna och brottsoffrens upplevelser av medling analyserats, analysen visar att medling av båda parter beskrivs som ett möte där en motpart gett dem insikt om den andres upplevelse av brottet. Denna insikt resulterade i en för gärningspersonerna förändrad livssyn samt för brottsoffren en känsla av att få brottet utrett. Slutsatsen som dras i denna uppsats är att medling vid brott bidrar till att ge gärningsperson och brottsoffer en ny bild av händelsen och att denna nya bild leder till eftertanke kring det egna beteendet samt en förståelse för hur det egna agerandet påverkar andra. / What happens at a victim-offender mediation and how is this process perceived by the parties involved? That is the starting point in this paper illustrating perpetrators and victims’ experiences and their changing views of themselves and of the other party given by the mediation process. Criminal mediation means that the perpetrator and the victim meet to discuss their view of the crime. This paper, based on interviews, studies both parties own experiences of the mediation. The theoretical starting points of the paper are George Herbert Mead´s "the Generalized Other”, Thomas Scheff´s and Susanne Retzinger´s shame and reintegrative shame concept, Erving Goffman´s interaction ritual theory and "the concept of the third” described by Samuel Gerson. Perpetrators and victims experiences of the mediation have been analyzed by means of these theories, the analysis shows that mediation is described by both parties as a meeting giving them insight into the other parties’ experience of the crime. This insight resulted in a changed view on life for the perpetrators and a feeling of having the crime investigated for the victims. The conclusion in this paper is that victim-offender mediation gives the perpetrator and the victim a new view of the incident, resulting in reflection about their own behaviour and an understanding of how their acting affects others.

Tidigare forskning har visat samband mellan språkanvändning och den uppfattning som kvinnor själva och samhället har om våld och övergrepp. Kvinnor som har blivit utsatta för våld och övergrepp möter ofta misstro och skuldbeläggande från omgivningen, vilket leder till att de inte blir trodda och att förövaren i många fall inte döms. I detta arbete undersöks hur en viss språkanvändning framställer våld och övergrepp på ett sätt som bland annat skuldbelägger offret, och vilka konsekvenser den språkanvändningen får. Metoden för arbetet är diskursanalys, och består av en textgranskning av domar från en svensk tingsrätt. Resultaten visar att rätten beskriver våld och övergrepp på ett sätt som leder till konsekvenser som att våldet döljs, förövarens ansvar minskas samt att offret skuldbeläggs. Resultatet leder till förslag på hur rätten istället ska beskriva våld och övergrepp, för att undvika ovan nämnda konsekvenser. Resultatet mynnar också ut i ett förslag till förändring av svensk lagstiftning, men det konstateras även att denna lagändring möjligtvis måste föregås av en samhällelig förändring i stort. / Earlier research has demonstrated a link between language and the view that women themselves and society have of violence and abuse. Women who have experienced violence and abuse often face suspicion and blame from society, which leads to that they are not believed and that the perpetrator in many cases, is not convicted. This study focuses on how the language used in a Swedish court describes violence and abuse in ways that leads to the blaming of the victim, and the further consequences of that specific use of language. The method used in this thesis is discourse analysis, and the empirical study consists of a text review of court judgements by a Swedish court. Findings are that the court describes violence and abuse in a way that leads to that violence is hidden, the perpetrator's responsibility is reduced and the victim gets blamed. The result leads to suggestions on how the court could describe violence and abuse differently, in order to avoid these negative consequences. The result also points towards a proposal for a change in Swedish law, although this change in the law might possibly be preceded by a change in society in general.

Extreme violence, which often results in murder, is a prominent theme in the American literary canon; therefore, it deserves a wider and more focused lens in the study of Twentieth-Century American literature. Murder and entertainment seldom coexist in canonical literature, but the very nature of the murder, foreign to many readers, consequently piques one’s curiosity, and demands special attention. The literary texts I have chosen to discuss are four novels and three plays. They all belong to the genre known in literature as ‘a crime novel or play.’ The murderers are easily identified, and their criminal acts have been carried out successfully, often with much forethought and detail. My focus has been to conduct a psychological study to highlight the impetus for the crime. Three basic themes have captured my attention: 1- Is the murder a sin or a crime? What is the role of religion in the lives of the accused? 2- Is it right to blame society for such horrendous acts? 3- How is the American Dream portrayed in these works? The closer we get to the end of the Twentieth-Century, the harder it is to detect an affirmative ending in the works of literature I have explored. The insatiable appetite for material consumption overshadows the pursuit of happiness, or, maybe happiness is defined by material wealth. The critical question is: can American society read the warning written on the wall?