The practice of female genital mutilation is a global problem and it is prevalent in Africa. According to the United Nations Children's Education Fund (2005), each year about three million women and girls are subjected to female genital mutilation, predominantly in parts of Africa and a few Asian and Middle East countries. The situation is the same in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, where a large number of women and children have undergone and continue to undergo female genital mutilation. According to a UNICEF study, over 32% of Nigeria's female population has endured female genital mutilation and its attendant negative health and human rights consequences (UNICEF 2003: 2).Though Nigeria does not, at present, have a federal law banning female genital mutilation, the process of introducing one has been set in motion by the House of Representatives (lower house), which passed the HB22 Bill in 2007 (Deen 2008:1), which is still awaiting ratification by the Senate (Upper House) and acceptance by the Executive. However, eight out of the thirty-six states in Nigeria have passed laws prohibiting the practice of female genital mutilation (Jimoh 2005). The broad focus of this study was to explore the implementation of social regulatory policy, using the case of the implementation of female genital mutilation legislation in Nigeria. A policy analysis of social regulatory policy was investigated, with secondary studies on the implementation of female genital mutilation legislation in Nigeria. The broad issues investigated in the study include identifying the main aims and objectives of social regulatory policy; the policy instruments employed in the implementation of social regulatory policy; the implementation process of social regulatory policy; and the challenges and successes experienced by implementors in implementing social regulatory policy. The key issues the study sought to investigate include identifying the aims and objectives of female genital mutilation legislation in Nigeria; the policy instruments employed to implement female genital mutilation legislation; the implementation process of female genital mutilation legislation; and the challenges and successes experienced by implementors in implementing female genital mutilation legislation. The findings of social regulatory policy analysis showed that public participation is critical to the effective implementation of social regulatory policies, as they may encounter implementation difficulties if there is no provision for public participation during policy formulation. This in itself can give the government a better understanding of the socio-cultural issues at stake. These studies also showed that the wrong combination of policy instruments can hinder the effectiveness of social regulatory policy. Out of the varying policy instruments employed for policy implementation, government must choose the right combination of instruments that suits the intended policy outcome, in order to produce different effects. In order for social regulatory policies to be effective, implementers responsible for implementing social regulatory policy need to understand policy goals and be committed to its objectives. Adequate resources, both capital and human, must be invested in employing and training implementing agents. Finally, building and fostering networks and collaboration with civil society are critical to the successful implementation of social regulatory policies. In terms of application to this case study, the present investigation revealed that the implementation of female genital mutilation legislation in Nigeria has been difficult, and crippled with challenges, due to a number of factors that hinder effective policy outcome. These challenges are not unrelated to the fact that democracy is still nascent in Nigeria. First, there was a lack of public participation in the policy formulation process, which had negative consequences for effective implementation. Second, policymakers did not employ suitable policy instruments and this has hindered the implementation of female genital mutilation legislation. Third, a lack of common goal definition between implementing agents and policymakers has led to problems during the implementation of the policy. Other problems which have hindered the effective implementation of the policy include lack of skilled adequate resources, both capital and human, needed for the implementation of the policy. Finally, this study showed that government's failure to involve and collaborate with other actors/stakeholders through building networks with non-governmental organizations negatively affected the policy process. Building networks encourages the exchange of skills and information which can bring about effective policy implementation. The study concludes that these problems are pertinent to social regulatory policies, in general. Public participation in the policy formulation process must be encouraged, through active collaboration with civil society; employing the right policy implementation instruments and building institutional capacity (manpower) and providing adequate funding remain critical to the effective implementation of female genital mutilation legislation, not only in Nigeria, but in other places where such practices are deeply rooted in cultural beliefs. Also, for legislation to be effective, it must comprise the appropriate legal measures (that is, creating proper legal structures and legislation that will constrain and guide the behaviour of targets), regulatory measures (this involves the use of enforcement measures in order to compel the desired behavioural change) and policy measures (which encourages the participation of the targets in the policy process). / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

Darbe nagrinėjama nusikaltimų informatikai samprata, jos esminiai požymiai, analizuojamos vyraujančios nusikaltimų informatikai sampratos teisinėje literatūroje. Taip pat nagrinėjami nusikaltimai, numatyti Lietuvos Respublikos baudžiamojo kodekso XXX skyriuje „Nusikaltimai informatikai“ nusikaltimų informatikai sampratos kontekste. Darbe autorius pateikia, jo požiūriu, priimtiniausią nusikaltimų informatikai sampratą ir nagrinėja šios sampratos galimą įtaką nusikaltimų informatikai reguliavimui Lietuvoje. Darbe analizuojami nusikaltimų informatikai požymiai, iš kurių didesnes diskusijas sukelia nusikaltimo informatikai objektas ir dalykas. Vieni autoriai teigia, kad nusikaltimų informatikai objektas yra santykiai, susiję su informacijos ir informacijos resursų saugiu kūrimu, naudojimu ir platinimu, kitų nuomone nusikaltimų informatikai objektas yra informacija. Tačiau darbe autorius nepritaria tokiam požiūriui ir mano, kad priimtiniausia nuomonė dėl nusikaltimo informatikai objekto, apibūdinanti kaip visuomeninius santykius, susijusius su kompiuterinės informacijos saugumu. Autorius pateikia nuomonę, kad nusikaltimų informatikai dalykas kompiuterinė informacija dėl savo savybės nekisti pakitus ją sudarantiems kompiuteriniams duomenims ne visuomet atspindi nusikaltimų informatikai esmę. Dėl to, manytina, kad nusikaltimų informatikai dalyku turėtų būti įvardinti kompiuteriniai duomenys. / The main topics were found out during this study are: the conception of crimes against informatics, the main indications and analyzing of conception of crimes against informatics according the law literature. The criminal activities named in Chapter XXX of Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania are also described in this study. According the author point of view, we proposes the most attractive conception of crimes against informatics and researching possible influence on regulation of such crimes type in Republic of Lithuania of it. In this study the author analyzed indications of crime against informatics. The main causes of discussion are crime against informatics object and subject. There are different opinions about it. One of these opinions suggests that the object of that kind of crime is relationships, which are related to safe creation, use and broadcasting of information and information resources. Another opinion – object is information. The author of this study is disagree with such opinions and supposes that the most suitable opinion of conception of object have to describe the social relationships, related to security of computer information. He thinks that the subject of crime against informatics, computer information because of it feature to stay unchangeable even if computer data has been changed, inadequate the crime substance. The author suggests that the subject of crime against informatics is computer data. The author analyzes different... [to full text]

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Bremen, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-356) and index.

Magister Legum - LLM (Criminal Justice and Procedure) / Enforced disappearances are a heinous violation of numerous human rights enshrined in many international conventions. However, they have not been adequately addressed in many jurisdictions. This crime is very common within countries on the continent of Africa, which despite having plenty of conflicts, under report cases of enforced disappearances. This research paper investigates the transitional justice mechanisms implemented in Uganda to deal with the phenomenon of enforced disappearances. It analyses the mechanisms implemented by the Government of Uganda and those by Non- Governmental Organisations. The paper examines also how the phenomenon of enforced disappearances has been dealt with in other countries such as Morocco, Kenya and South Africa. The paper suggests several recommendations to Uganda after having made a comparison with the selected countries on how to deal with the crime of enforced disappearances.

This thesis explores how the battered woman attachment to her abusive partner impacts on her interactions with the legal system and non-legal resources. This qualitative research project is based on in-depth interviews conducted with seven abused women who procured interdicts in terms of the Prevention of Family Violence Act 133 of 1993 to restrain their husbands from assaulting them. The research reviews the nature of abuse suffered by the participants, their psychological attachments to their husbands, and their patterns of help-seeking in relation to the law and non-legal resources. Two main theoretical frameworks, psychoanalysis and feminism inform this study. The study found that the participants retained unrealistic hopes that their husbands would reform and become loving, caring partners, and that they treated their husbands with care and sympathy despite their husbands’ often brutal behaviour towards them. The findings suggest that the women’s behaviour towards their husbands was the product of two reality distorting psychological defences, splitting and the moral defence which they used to preserve their attachments to their abusive partners. These defences intersected with rigid patriarchal prescriptions of femininity which dictate that women should be stoically caring towards their husbands, and should hold relationships together no matter what the cost to themselves. The participants interactions with the legal system and with non-legal sources of help were structured by their reliance on splitting and the moral defence, and by the dictates of patriarchal ideology. Whilst it is undoubtedly true that at one level the participants sought help to get protection from abuse, the study shows that their help-seeking was motivated by their conflicting desires to punish and reform their husbands. The participants sought help in ways which enabled them to strike a compromise between expressing their anger at their husbands, whilst simultaneously preserving their psychological attachments to them. The study concludes that the women’s interactions with the law and with other helping resource reflect their attempts to preserve their paradoxical attachments to their husbands, and to stabilise their own fragile sense of self and gender identity.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-02-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:16Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 david_p_me_assis.pdf: 620546 bytes, checksum: b1dedb2696453b638800512b8b185d09 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A presente pesquisa discute as questões relacionadas às práticas das jovens das classes populares envolvidas nos crimes de estupro, sedução e rapto, todos delitos contra os costumes sociais, ocorridos na cidade de Assis entre os anos de 1950 e 1979, bem como as representações lançadas pelos membros do Poder Judiciário sobre tais comportamentos. A grande maioria das vítimas destes delitos estava diretamente envolvida no mercado de trabalho e possuía um menor monitoramento de suas práticas sociais. Diante disto, os membros do Poder Judiciário, os quais preservavam as representações tradicionais sobre o feminino, repreendiam estes comportamentos e os consideravam desviantes da moral e dos costumes. Sem levar em consideração a idade e as características culturais das vítimas, julgavam-nas como se fossem mulheres rebeldes e, muitas vezes, promíscuas. Pertencentes a um grupo social específico, essas jovens foram vítimas não apenas dos crimes contra os costumes, mas também da discriminação de uma sociedade machista e conservadora. / This present research discusses questions related to practices of young women from popular classes involved in rape, seduction and kidnapping crimes, all these delicts against the social custom happened in Assis city between 1950 and the 1979, and it also discusses the representations instituted by members of the Judiciary Committee about these behaviors. Great part of the victims concerning those delicts was involved at the job market and had a low supervision of their social practices. For this reason, members of the Judiciary Committee, who preserved the traditional representations about the feminine, reprehended these behaviors and considered them diverged from the moral and custom. Without considering age and cultural features of the victims, they were judged as rebel and, most of the time, promiscuous women. Belonging to a specific social group, these young women were not only victims of crimes against the custom, but they were also victims of discrimination by a sexist and conservative society.

O presente estudo buscou fazer uma releitura dos processos-crime na cidade de Caxias do Sul/RS, na década de trinta do século passado, que envolveram a violência contra o sexo feminino. Tomando os processos-crime como fonte, foram escolhidos os que continham os crimes de defloramento, estupro e violência sexual. O trabalho teve como objetivo estudar a trajetória da mulher caxiense vítima de violência, com enfoque no contexto social, político, cultural e organizacional, verificando, assim, as relações de trabalho e poder, condições de vida, educacional e sexual. Sendo o estudo de suma importância, pois nos reporta para a realidade atual, melhorando, assim, a compreensão das relações existentes entre os sexos. Realizou-se, também, um recorte sobre a legislação vigente na época em que ocorreram os crimes, abordouse um breve histórico sobre os processos-crime catalogados em Caxias do Sul. O estudo permeia a formação da Comarca de Caxias do Sul, seus primeiros habitantes, a imigração italiana, bem como o papel da mulher caxiense na sociedade e como ela foi apresentada na história, por meio do discurso e da prática de submissão e dependência. Propõe-se a implantação, nas escolas, da temática de igualdade de gêneros e a abordagem do papel da escola como agente de transformação social. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-12-08T13:09:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Jony Ramos Ottoni.pdf: 2454119 bytes, checksum: 82551d0f8b7ce112b0d8ab38c27eb7cb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-08T13:09:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Jony Ramos Ottoni.pdf: 2454119 bytes, checksum: 82551d0f8b7ce112b0d8ab38c27eb7cb (MD5) / This study aimed to make a rereading of criminal cases in the city of Caxias do Sul/RS, in the thirties of the last century, involving violence against women. Taking the criminal proceedings as a source, they were chosen that contained the deflowering of crimes, rape and sexual violence. The work aimed to study the trajectory of caxiense woman victim of violence, focusing on social, political, cultural and organizational, checking thus labor relations and power, living conditions, educational and sexual. And the study of paramount importance because the reports for the current reality, thus improving the understanding of the relationship between the sexes. Held also a cutout on the legislation in force at the time they occurred the crimes, addressed to a brief history of the criminal cases cataloged in Caxias do Sul. The study permeates the formation of Caxias do Sul County, its first inhabitants, the Italian immigration and the role of women in society caxiense and how it was presented in history, through discourse and practice of submission and dependence. It is proposed the implementation in schools, the issue of gender equality and the approach of the school's role as agents of social transformation.

Gender-based violence has been recognized as a pressing mental health problem that is prevalent within South African society. Non-governmental organizations play a major role in addressing and highlighting the issue. These organizations make use of volunteers in order to assist in meeting their goals. The modernist perspective has been the dominant investigative mode when research into volunteers has been conducted. However, this study has been conducted with an emphasis on narrative. In its use of this constitutionalist and deconstructive perspective, it examines the identity of the research participants within the dominant social and cultural discourses that story their lives. This presents a major challenge to the modernist framework. In examining the life stories of the participants an emergent nature of identity is noted. Through the process of storying their lives and ascribing meaning to their experiences and understandings, the participants engaged in a process of constructing their identity. This research recognizes that identity is both multi-sited and multi-storied. The emphasis on personal agency enables the participants to restory their lives in the light of challenging prevailing discourses. It is in this process of challenge that they reauthor their lives and are in a position to change their own lives and the lives of others.

O presente estudo buscou fazer uma releitura dos processos-crime na cidade de Caxias do Sul/RS, na década de trinta do século passado, que envolveram a violência contra o sexo feminino. Tomando os processos-crime como fonte, foram escolhidos os que continham os crimes de defloramento, estupro e violência sexual. O trabalho teve como objetivo estudar a trajetória da mulher caxiense vítima de violência, com enfoque no contexto social, político, cultural e organizacional, verificando, assim, as relações de trabalho e poder, condições de vida, educacional e sexual. Sendo o estudo de suma importância, pois nos reporta para a realidade atual, melhorando, assim, a compreensão das relações existentes entre os sexos. Realizou-se, também, um recorte sobre a legislação vigente na época em que ocorreram os crimes, abordouse um breve histórico sobre os processos-crime catalogados em Caxias do Sul. O estudo permeia a formação da Comarca de Caxias do Sul, seus primeiros habitantes, a imigração italiana, bem como o papel da mulher caxiense na sociedade e como ela foi apresentada na história, por meio do discurso e da prática de submissão e dependência. Propõe-se a implantação, nas escolas, da temática de igualdade de gêneros e a abordagem do papel da escola como agente de transformação social. / This study aimed to make a rereading of criminal cases in the city of Caxias do Sul/RS, in the thirties of the last century, involving violence against women. Taking the criminal proceedings as a source, they were chosen that contained the deflowering of crimes, rape and sexual violence. The work aimed to study the trajectory of caxiense woman victim of violence, focusing on social, political, cultural and organizational, checking thus labor relations and power, living conditions, educational and sexual. And the study of paramount importance because the reports for the current reality, thus improving the understanding of the relationship between the sexes. Held also a cutout on the legislation in force at the time they occurred the crimes, addressed to a brief history of the criminal cases cataloged in Caxias do Sul. The study permeates the formation of Caxias do Sul County, its first inhabitants, the Italian immigration and the role of women in society caxiense and how it was presented in history, through discourse and practice of submission and dependence. It is proposed the implementation in schools, the issue of gender equality and the approach of the school's role as agents of social transformation.

Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master in Technology: Public Administration-Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, 2017. / Since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, the issue of achieving sustainable peace and development has remained a challenge due to a lack of comprehensive approaches to issues of human rights violations. With such a problem, it becomes easy for individuals and society to use violence as a means to an end and, thus, it has become culturally acceptable, not only in political spheres but also in the school sphere. Therefore, this study aims to promote positive attitudes among students to reduce levels of bullying and to enable to realise the prevention mechanisms that exist within themselves through an action research intervention. Action research with a group of ten students was used create awareness on the negative impact of bullying and also the importance of creating and maintaining peaceful schools. Research proved that violent behaviour among students appears to be a serious problem at Prince Edward School and at Cranborne High School. I worked together with students in two schools to design, implement and evaluate a programme designed to reduce bullying behaviour. It is recommended that students, academic staff, police and the Ministry of Education work together to design interventions that include students in reducing bullying in schools. / M