When assessing the risk of violence, increasing interest has been shown in bringing science and practice closer together. Moving from clinical intuition in the first generation of risk assessment via actuarial scales in the second generation to the structured professional judgments where risk assessments are today produces better, more valid results when assessing the risk of violence. One of the best predictors of violence is gender. Approximately 10% of the violent criminality can be attributed to women; even so, it is increasing, especially among young women. It is therefore important to examine risk assessments from a gender perspective. Another important factor when assessing the risk of violence is psychopathy and there are indications that there might be gender differences in this diagnosis. Thus, a special interest has been focused on psychopathy in this thesis. The purpose with this work is to explore the similarities and differences in assessing risk for violence in male and female mentally disordered offenders, while the overall aim is to validate the violence risk assessment instrument HCR-20 for Swedish offender populations. The risk assessments for all six studies in this thesis were made by trained personnel using the HCR-20 instrument, where psychopathy was diagnosed with the screening version of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL:SV). The study populations were both male and female mentally disordered offenders in either the correctional or the forensic setting. The findings show that both the validity and the reliability of the HCR-20 and the PCL:SV were good and the clinical and risk management subscales were found to have better predictive validity than the historical scale. Another finding was that there were more similarities than differences between genders in the HCR-20, while the opposite applied to the PCL:SV, where the antisocial behavior was performed in a different manner. Moreover, it was found that the gender of the assessor might be a factor to take into account when assessing the risk of violence in women, where the recommendation was that at least one assessor should be female. The conclusions were that the HCR-20 and the PCL:SV can be used In Swedish offender populations with valid results. For female offenders, there are differences in the antisocial behavior that is assessed in order to diagnose psychopathy and these differences tend to underestimate psychopathy among female offenders. Furthermore, the gender of the assessor might be of greater importance than has previously been realized. The overall conclusion was that this thesis supports the structural professional judgment method of making risk assessments in order to prevent violence in the community.

Crime of murder under section 140 of the criminal code: criminal law, criminological and criminalistic aspects Abstract This thesis is intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the crime phenomenon of murder not only from a criminal law point of view, but also from a criminological and criminalistic point of view. Before the analysis of the actual questions is first described the history of the legal regulation of murders in the territory of nowadays Czech Republic, as the outline of the development and approach to punishment of murders in history serves to better understand the form of the present arrangement and its meaning. Subsequently, the term human life is described, in which it is important to define its beginning and end, as it is highlighted that it is the object of the murder crime and the most important criminal code protected by the interest. After that, the issue of the crime of murder from the point of view of criminal law is already addressed, especially by its inclusion within the system of intentional killing, which is contained in the current Criminal Code. At the beginning, the elements of a crime of murder are characterized and typified. Then the space is given to analysis the types of murders and their features as they are defined in § 140 of the Criminal Code....

J. M. Coetzee's brutal novel Disgrace questions popular understandings of criminality and victimhood by establishing parallels between its various characters and their actions. Through close reading of Coetzee's descriptions of protagonist David Lurie's behaviors and attitudes towards women, non-human animals, and people of color compared with descriptions of the mysterious trio of men who rape Lurie's daughter and coldly kill the dogs in her kennels, I argue that the line Disgrace draws between Lurie and these men is deliberately flimsy, ultimately all but disappearing if we look closely enough at their behaviors and descriptions rather than their justifications. I also argue that the novel's perpetrators rely upon archetypical "rapist" and "criminal" constructs, resulting in an inability for them to ever accurately address their own crimes, despite Coetzee's descriptive parallels. Ultimately, I read Disgrace as suggesting that there can be no resolution for violence so long as these mythical archetypes persist. / by Ashley B. Harrintgon. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:18:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANTONIO EUSTAQUIO FERREIRA.pdf: 1772711 bytes, checksum: 8c1f842523ecce1e236993b9b7e6470a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-21 / The pillar that supports this thesis consisted of psychoanalysis in critical social situations, using these instruments: semi-structured interviews for study 1 and a focal group for study 2. We undertook a Discourse Analysis as developed by Pêcheux (1983), Minayo (2000) and Orlandi (2005), as well as the investigation of the modal verbs can , want to, should and have to/need to , in their different modes, identifying how these verbs, as used by the respondents, relate to epistemic or deontic modalities, pursuant to Santos (1999), Santos (2000), Alves (2007) and Martins (2011). The main objective of this study was to establish a reflection on the means through which the transformations that have taken place within the family and the decline of patriarchy can have influenced the so-called decline of the paternal function , in its most traditional meaning. Analyze the aspects related to emerging concept of childhood and adolescence, the society of narcissism, how they contributed to the decline of the father , and how they influenced the decline of the paternal function and provided subsidies to violence in social interaction of young students. Specifically, the aim of this thesis was to obtain information on actions categorized as violent by young students; identify factors that contribute to school violence among young people and determine the relationship between violent sociability in young students and the paternal function. As a result, it is possible to conclude that children and young people were gradually subjected to the condition of subjects. However, changes that have been taking place in the family and in how its members are dealt with, mainly the children and the young people, have altered the relationship between parents and their children. New social actors and the State interfere in family life, by occupying the place of a symbolic father, replacing parents in their duties and weakening the authority of the father and his function. Therefore, this study leads us to the assumption that it is violence, taken as a producer of meanings that guides the current violent sociability among young students, resulting from the decline of the paternal function. / O suporte fundamental desta tese constituiu-se da psicanálise em situações sociais críticas, cujos instrumentos utilizados para pesquisa foram: entrevistas semiestruturadas para o estudo 1 e grupo focal para o estudo 2. Empreendemos a Análise do Discurso desenvolvia por Pêcheux (1983), Minayo (2000) e Orlandi (2005), bem como a investigação dos verbos modais poder , querer, dever e ter que/ter de , em seus variados modos, identificando como esses verbos, na forma utilizada pelos respondentes, se relacionam com as modalidades epistêmicas ou deônticas, conforme orientações de Santos (1999), Santos (2000), Alves (2007) e Martins (2011). O objetivo principal desta pesquisa foi refletir como os modos pelos quais as transformações na família e o declínio do patriarcado pode haver influenciado o chamado declínio da função paterna , no seu sentido mais tradicional. Analisar aspectos relativos à emergência das concepções modernas de infância e adolescência, da sociedade do narcisismo, como contribuíram para o declínio do pai , e como influenciaram o declínio da função paterna e subsidiaram a sociabilidade violenta dos jovens escolares. Especificamente, levantar informações acerca das ações consideradas violentas pelos jovens na escola; identificar fatores que contribuem para a violência escolar entre jovens e verificar a relação entre a sociabilidade violenta em jovens escolares e a função paterna. Como resultado pode-se concluir que as crianças e os jovens foram submetidos gradativamente à condição de sujeitos. Porém, as transformações na família e nos modos de lidar com os componentes, principalmente as crianças e os jovens, modificaram as relações entre pais e filhos. Novos atores sociais e o Estado interferem na vida familiar, ocupando o lugar de pai simbólico, substituindo a função dos progenitores e enfraquecendo a autoridade do pai e de sua função. Portanto, esse estudo nos leva a pensar que a violência considerada como produtora de sentidos é que norteia a atual sociabilidade violenta em jovens escolares, em razão do declínio da função paterna.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-06-13T12:28:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Elisângela de Melo Paes Leme Menezes.pdf: 1770823 bytes, checksum: 8a0a166de01147602e6f067a4afef738 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-13T12:28:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elisângela de Melo Paes Leme Menezes.pdf: 1770823 bytes, checksum: 8a0a166de01147602e6f067a4afef738 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Violent deaths due to disasters, accidents, suicide or homicide, in increasing numbers in Brazil and in the world, raise important questions for research in Psychology, especially with a focus on mourning. The violence, the unexpected, the quality of the support after death have a great weight in the process of mourning, and can collaborate for the installation of a complicated mourning. This research - quantitative and qualitative - aims to Analyze the results of the use of cinematographic language as a group psychotherapeutic strategy of intervention in grief for violent death (caused by external factors). Participants were invited through the internet and disseminated as snowball. An individual interview was conducted and applied the Hogan Grief Reaction Checklist (HGRC). After ten group sessions, with weekly frequency and two hours each, using the resource of specifically selected films, in the last meeting was reapplied the HGRC. The comparative Analysis between the two applications of the HGRC showed a significant improvement in the experience of mourning of the participants. The results of the research indicated that using cinematographic language as a resource for psychotherapeutic intervention brought positive results to participants / As mortes violentas, por desastres, acidentes, suicídio ou homicídio, em número crescente no Brasil e no mundo, suscitam questões importantes para a pesquisa em Psicologia, sobretudo com foco no luto. A violência, o inesperado e a qualidade do suporte posterior à morte têm peso grande no processo de luto, podendo colaborar para a instalação de um luto complicado. Esta pesquisa — quantitativa e qualitativa — tem como objetivo analisar os resultados da utilização da linguagem cinematográfica como recurso de intervenção psicoterapêutica em grupo para pessoas enlutadas, em decorrência de morte violenta. Os participantes foram convidados por meio da internet e de divulgação como bola de neve. Foi realizada uma entrevista individual e aplicado o instrumento de avaliação Hogan Grief Reaction Checklist (HGRC). Após dez sessões grupais, com frequência semanal e duas horas de duração cada, tendo sido utilizado o recurso de filmes especificamente selecionados, no último encontro foi reaplicado o HGRC. A análise comparativa entre as duas aplicações do HGRC evidenciou melhora significativa na experiência de luto dos participantes. Os resultados da pesquisa indicaram que utilizar a linguagem cinematográfica como recurso de intervenção psicoterapêutica trouxe resultados positivos aos participantes

O presente trabalho visa compreender o processo da emerg?ncia dos jovens moEURambicanos na experi?ncia do assalto ^ mo armada na cidade de Lichinga. Para tanto, recorreuse a entrevistas, observaEURo direta e reportagens jornal?sticas como ferramentas anal?ticas. O estudo + composto por dois eixos de an...lise complementares: macrossociol,,gico e microssociol,,gico. O primeiro eixo aborda as mudanEURas sociais, econ,micas e pol?ticas por que passou a sociedade moEURambicana no per?odo de 1975 a 1990. Tendo como objetivo compreender como essas mudanEURas influenciaram os padr?es de comportamento juvenil e a emerg?ncia dos jovens na experi?ncia do assalto ^ mo armada. O segundo eixo + centrado na construEURo dos perfis das carreiras na vida criminal de seis jovens assaltantes carcerados na cadeia provincial do Niassa, localizada na cidade de Lichinga, com o intuito de perceber quem so esses jovens que optam por essa modalidade criminosa e por que os mesmos enveredam pelo mundo do crime e da viol?ncia, mais propriamente do assalto ^ mo armada. A reflexo que perpassa os dois eixos coloca em discusso a circulaEURo de armas de fogo utilizado na guerra civil, a corrupEURo policial e a desigualdade social como fatores explicativos centrais da emerg?ncia dos jovens moEURambicanos na experi?ncia do assalto ^ mo armada. / The present work aims to understand the process of the emergency of the young mozambicans in the experience of the armed hand assault in the city of Lichinga. In this case, were used interviews, direct observation and journalistic news articles as analytical tools. The study is composed of two complementary axles of analysis: macrosociological and microsociological. The first axle approaches social, economic and political changes between the periods from 1975 up to 1990. Having as objective to understand how these changes influenced the standards of the young people behavior and the emergency of the young people in the experience of the armed hand assault. The second axle is centered in the construction of the careers profiles in the criminal life of six young assaltants arrested in the provincial penitentiary of the Niassa, located in the city of Lichinga, with intention to perceive who are these young people that opt in this criminal modality and why the same ones follow the world of the crime and violence, more properly the armed hand assault. The reflection that goes into the two axles places in discussion the circulation of firearms used in the civil war, the police corruption and the social inaquality as central clarifying factors for the emergency of the young mozambicans in the experience of the assault by armed hand.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:16:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aurimar Pacheco Ferreira.pdf: 709795 bytes, checksum: 0817a7e4a7955bd7d893be4debc94ec1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The theme of this research referred to an experience conducted by NECA Associação dos Pesquisadores de Núcleos de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Crianças e o Adolescente, named Collective Construction Project of Spaces and Times of Peace , which occurred along twelve months (January to December/2006) in seven municipalities of the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, known as Great ABCD, composed by the cities of Santo Andre, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Caetano do Sul, Diadema, Mauá, Ribeirao Pires and Rio Grande da Serra. The operation of the Project was proposed by the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Great ABCD, which represented the juridical collegiate instance of the seven cities, that have been acting in those places for around ten years, as a development agency for the municipalities, affecting the Public Policies and its paths of intermunicipal interactions. The study aimed to investigate the many forms of thematic, the content and the shape of the workshops received by the participants, all them indicated, in their respective cities, by its local municipalities, that was supported by the municipals secretaries of Education, Health, Transport, as well other Public Policies having transversal actuation with the Social Assistances policies. The implementation process of the workshops took twelve months of work, including stages of selection and formation of instructors, work assemblies with the respective municipal secretaries, along with the Greater ABCD Intermunicipal Consortium, local preparation seminaries, mobilization, opening and evaluation of the developed activities. The workshops were accomplished itself between the months of August and December of the year of 2006 and totalized a number of thirty nine, beginning with thirty participants, who were kept in the workshops during four hours a week, during ten weeks. The study presented a cut view about the totality of the workshops and analyses the objective and subjective meanders of such a proposal / O tema desta pesquisa refere-se à experiência realizada pelo NECA - Associação dos Pesquisadores de Núcleos de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Criança e o Adolescente, denominada Projeto Construção Coletiva de Espaços e Tempos de Paz que se desencadeou durante doze meses (janeiro a dezembro / 2006) em sete municípios da Grande São Paulo, na região do ABCD, composta pelos municípios de Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano do Sul, Diadema, Mauá, Ribeirão Pires e Rio Grande da Serra. A operação do Projeto foi proposta pelo Consórcio Intermunicipal do Grande ABC, instância jurídica colegiada dos sete municípios, a qual atua há cerca de dez anos, como uma agência de desenvolvimento regional, incidindo sobre as Políticas Públicas e suas formas de interação intermunicipal. O estudo teve como objetivo investigar as diversas formas, a temática, o conteúdo e o formato das oficinas recebidas pelos participantes, todos indicados em cada município pela municipalidade local, por meio das secretarias de municipais de Educação, Saúde, Transporte e demais Políticas Públicas com atuação transversal à política de Assistência Social. O processo de implantação das oficinas compreendeu doze meses de trabalho, com seleção e formação dos oficineiros, reuniões de trabalhos com as respectivas secretarias municipais em conjunto com o Consórcio Intermunicipal do Grande ABCD, seminários locais e regionais de preparação, mobilização, abertura e avaliação dos trabalhos. As oficinas em si foram realizadas entre agosto e dezembro de 2006 e foram constituídas de trinta e nove, com trinta participantes inscritos, carga horária de quatro horas semanais, durante dez semanas. O estudo apresenta uma visão recortada da totalidade das oficinas e analisa os meandros objetivos e subjetivos de uma proposta dessa natureza

Mankind has developed a lot in the field of Information Technology (IT), Computer Science and Media entertainment. Video games are also the most popular form of media entertainment and gaming environment. It has been popular long before the new generation video games idea was ever thought by the video game designers. Through our research we tried to investigate the positive and negative effects of video games on youth and children. This form of entertainment is more designed attracted among the people, due to the high sophisticated music and environment, which catches every eye. We not only analyzed the previous attempts in this area, but also tried to add some contribution to it. The excessive use of video games makes it more damaging effects on a young mind. Parents and teachers should keep a check on youngsters, and also the companies who design such violent games should keep in account that, what they show through these video games must have some logical or educational value. Many children and youngsters we found through our survey like to play video games because they do not have any other entertaining options. Violent video games are the most appreciated one among children and young people because of the detailed high quality graphics, more realistic images, use of artificial intelligence, complex game strategies, intelligent game inference engines and human-machine interaction. Parents should keep check on their children and select such video games for them which teach their children some useful things and beneficial for them in studies and near future. The teachers in school should also talk more about the advantages of educative games or physical games to develop the young minds more professional and realistic, rather than creating fantasy and fake imaginations. Our survey and research showed us that due to the high attraction of the video games, positive and negative effects are going side by side. Many youth and children do not take the video games seriously and just play them as any another game, while some video game players have disturbed their studies and health by playing the video games for many hours. Many children and young generation denied calling it as an addiction or bad habit. If violence and killing a life is entertainment then human beings will consider it, as a fun and modern society cannot be defined as civilized. This is what we found from our research and survey. / Program: Magisterutbildning i informatik

O presente trabalho visa compreender o processo da emerg?ncia dos jovens moEURambicanos na experi?ncia do assalto ^ mo armada na cidade de Lichinga. Para tanto, recorreuse a entrevistas, observaEURo direta e reportagens jornal?sticas como ferramentas anal?ticas. O estudo + composto por dois eixos de an...lise complementares: macrossociol,,gico e microssociol,,gico. O primeiro eixo aborda as mudanEURas sociais, econ,micas e pol?ticas por que passou a sociedade moEURambicana no per?odo de 1975 a 1990. Tendo como objetivo compreender como essas mudanEURas influenciaram os padr?es de comportamento juvenil e a emerg?ncia dos jovens na experi?ncia do assalto ^ mo armada. O segundo eixo + centrado na construEURo dos perfis das carreiras na vida criminal de seis jovens assaltantes carcerados na cadeia provincial do Niassa, localizada na cidade de Lichinga, com o intuito de perceber quem so esses jovens que optam por essa modalidade criminosa e por que os mesmos enveredam pelo mundo do crime e da viol?ncia, mais propriamente do assalto ^ mo armada. A reflexo que perpassa os dois eixos coloca em discusso a circulaEURo de armas de fogo utilizado na guerra civil, a corrupEURo policial e a desigualdade social como fatores explicativos centrais da emerg?ncia dos jovens moEURambicanos na experi?ncia do assalto ^ mo armada. / The present work aims to understand the process of the emergency of the young mozambicans in the experience of the armed hand assault in the city of Lichinga. In this case, were used interviews, direct observation and journalistic news articles as analytical tools. The study is composed of two complementary axles of analysis: macrosociological and microsociological. The first axle approaches social, economic and political changes between the periods from 1975 up to 1990. Having as objective to understand how these changes influenced the standards of the young people behavior and the emergency of the young people in the experience of the armed hand assault. The second axle is centered in the construction of the careers profiles in the criminal life of six young assaltants arrested in the provincial penitentiary of the Niassa, located in the city of Lichinga, with intention to perceive who are these young people that opt in this criminal modality and why the same ones follow the world of the crime and violence, more properly the armed hand assault. The reflection that goes into the two axles places in discussion the circulation of firearms used in the civil war, the police corruption and the social inaquality as central clarifying factors for the emergency of the young mozambicans in the experience of the assault by armed hand.

The overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in crime has been an issue of debate. Some evidence, however, has shown that racial differences in offending are largely accounted for by economic disadvantage. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 4,290), the relationship between race and delinquency was examined looking at social disorganization factors. It was hypothesized that there would be racial and ethnic differences in delinquency and that these differences would be accounted for by social disorganization factors, specifically collective efficacy and economic disadvantage. The results show that compared to White adolescents Hispanic adolescents have increased odds of nonviolent and violent delinquency, and Black adolescents have increased odds of violent delinquency. Contrary to expectations, social disorganization factors did not account for the racial and ethnic differences in delinquency. Unexpectedly, higher levels of collective efficacy actually increased the odds of violent delinquency.