The problem of universal oppression has caused Gutierrez, Cone and Moltmann to advocate that God is orchestrating an historical programme of liberation from socio-economic, racial and political suffering. They feel that God's liberating actions can be seen in the Abrahamic promise, the exodus and the Christ-event. Moltmann, especially, has emphasized both the trinitarian identification with human pain and the influence of the freedom of the future upon the suffering of the present. According to our theologians, Jesus Christ identified with us, and died the death of a substitutionary victim. Through the resurrection, Jesus Christ overcame the problem of suffering and death, and inaugurated the New Age. The cross and resurrection were the focal point of God's liberating activity. Liberation, or freedom, from sin and suffering is now possible, at least proleptically. We are to understand the atonement as having been liberative rather than forensic or legal, although judgement is not ignored. Both the perpetrators of injustice and their victims are called upon to identify with, and struggle for, freedom, with the help of the liberating Christ. We agree with our theologians that God has historically indicated his desire for justice and freedom. The magnitude of evil and suffering still existing, however, forces us to abandon the idea that God is progressively liberating history. Nevertheless, we affirm the idea that the Trinity has absorbed human suffering into its own story through the incarnate Son. Jesus identified with suffering in a four-fold way, namely: its existence, the judgement of it, the overcoming of it, and the need to oppose it. This comprehensive identification gives Christ the right to demand the doing of justice, because the greatest injustice in history has happened to him. The atonement was forensic, rendering all people accountable to Christ; but it was also liberative, validating the struggle against oppression. Furthermore, at his second coming, Christ will be vindicated in whatever judgement he will exact upon the perpetrators of injustice or oppression. For today the resurrection still gives hope and faith to those who suffer and to those who identify with them / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / Th.D. (Systematic Theology)

After teaching in High school for six years, I was frustrated to see the institutional action on the issue of school violence. The creation of a climate conducive to teaching and learning has become a serious challenge to many educators. Through research, it became clear that enough has not yet been done. Therefore, an empirical investigation into this problem was necessary to determine the nature of violence in order to enhance better understanding of the phenomenon under study. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the factors related to the prevalence of violence in rural secondary schools in the Bushbuckridge (Bohlabela) district in Mpumalanga province. This research employed a qualitative research approach to answer the research question. The study aimed to provide an accurate, objective, representative and empirically sound body of data on the extent of violence within schools in the Ximhungwe circuit in Bohlabela district, Mpumalanga. The research design comprised a case study that included focus group interviews with six participants in each group. In addition, I employed participant observation and document analysis. The study focused on four rural secondary schools that were purposefully selected in the Ximhungwe circuit in Bohlabela district, Mpumalanga. Ethical issues were taken into consideration while conducting the sampling and the selection of learners was based on their accounts of frequent violence against learners or teachers, and because they were considered knowledgeable and informative about the phenomenon under study. / Educational Leadership and Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)

After teaching in High school for six years, I was frustrated to see the institutional action on the issue of school violence. The creation of a climate conducive to teaching and learning has become a serious challenge to many educators. Through research, it became clear that enough has not yet been done. Therefore, an empirical investigation into this problem was necessary to determine the nature of violence in order to enhance better understanding of the phenomenon under study. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the factors related to the prevalence of violence in rural secondary schools in the Bushbuckridge (Bohlabela) district in Mpumalanga province. This research employed a qualitative research approach to answer the research question. The study aimed to provide an accurate, objective, representative and empirically sound body of data on the extent of violence within schools in the Ximhungwe circuit in Bohlabela district, Mpumalanga. The research design comprised a case study that included focus group interviews with six participants in each group. In addition, I employed participant observation and document analysis. The study focused on four rural secondary schools that were purposefully selected in the Ximhungwe circuit in Bohlabela district, Mpumalanga. Ethical issues were taken into consideration while conducting the sampling and the selection of learners was based on their accounts of frequent violence against learners or teachers, and because they were considered knowledgeable and informative about the phenomenon under study. / Educational Leadership and Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)

Thesis (M. A. (Clinical Psychology)) --University of the North, 2001 / This study is an investigation into the sexual attitudes of incest abuse perpetrators in the Northern Province and attitudes towards their victims (South Africa). Forty-two convicted male incest abuse perpetrators and forty-two professional males nonperpetrators (as control group) participated in the study. The Hanson Sex Attitude Questionnaire was administered to both incest abuse perpetrators and professional males ' nonperpetrator (as control group) to compar':' their attitudes. The questionnaire includes: Sexual Entitle ment scale, Sexy-Children scale, Frustration scale, Affair scale, Sex/ Affection-Confusion scale. and Sexual-Harm scale. A quantitative research approach was followed in the study. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze the responses. Compared to the control group, the incest abuse perpetrators showed deviant negative attitudes in all the scales : (a) endorsing attitudes supportive to sexua l en title ment, (b) perceiving children to be sexually attractive, (c) being sexually frustrated in their life, (d) confusing sex with affection, (e) minimizing the harm caused by sexual abuse of childre n, and (t) accepting extra-marital affairs. Thus the attitudes of incest abuse perpetrators are significantly unfavorable to the victims. The researcher recommends psychological intervention for the perpetrators to help them adjust to their societal expectations. More job opportunities should be created in the province.

Les faits de violences conjugales constituent un phénomène social d’importance. Les auteurs de ces faits ne sont la plupart du temps, ni des monstres, ni des pervers, ni même des malades mentaux. Nous avons constaté que trois sortes de facteurs sont déterminants dans la population étudiée, celle de 400 personnes mises en cause pour faits de violences conjugales. Ces trois catégories de facteurs étaient les suivants : sociaux et culturels, les attentes et les attitudes de chaque partenaire au sein du couple et enfin les facteurs intrapsychiques. Pour les facteurs sociaux et culturels, nous avons mis en évidence la notion de déprivation psychosociale. Quant aux attitudes du conjoint au sein du couple, elles s’articulent autour d’une double tendance indépendance-dépendance. Pour les conjointes, nous avons mis en évidence des attitudes de maternalité. Enfin, l’ensemble des processus psychiques des auteurs de violences conjugales rencontrés, s’ordonnent dans une polarité narcissique-identitaire. Face aux violences conjugales, la société met en œuvre un processus judiciaire obéissant à un arsenal juridique de plus en plus nourri. Depuis les années quatre-vingt-dix, sont nés des dispositifs de prise en compte de ces auteurs. Le dispositif VIRAGE, né en 2002 à Saint-Etienne (Loire) par la volonté de deux structures, une associative et l’autre hospitalière, est un de ceux-là. Quels sont les effets et limites des groupes mis en place par ce dispositif ? Si les effets de tels groupes sur la récidive ne sont pas probants, par contre ils s’avèrent pertinents sur l’expression, les représentations, la reconnaissance des faits, la compréhension de la sanction, le renouage des liens notamment avec les enfants, l’ouverture à d’autres modes de communication.Les limites sont celles d’un dispositif ayant pour intention des changements. Ce dispositif que nous avons qualifié d’encadrement social, selon un modèle psycho-éducatif, ne doit pas être assimilé à un processus judiciaire car il changerait fondamentalement de positionnement. Nous proposons à la fin de la thèse un programme de prévention tenant compte de ces acquis. / Marital violence is one really important social phenomenon. The perpetrators in these facts are most of the time, neither monsters, nor perverts, nor mental patients. We had concluded that three kinds of factor are determinative for the study population, which consists of 400 persons accused for marital violence. These three categories of factors were following: social and cultural expectations and attitudes of each partner and finally intrapsychic factors. For the social and cultural factors we have highlighted the concept of psychosocial deprivation. Regarding the attitudes of the spouse, they revolve around double tendency of independence-dependence. For the spouses, we have highlighted attitudes of “maternalité”. Finally, all psychic processes in the perpetrators of the marital violence, which we had met, are organized in a polarity narcissistic identity. The society faced with marital violence implements a judicial system which follows and give more and more resources to this legal arsenal. In the nineties, the programmes were born considering the perpetrators of the marital violence. The programme VIRAGE is among them, founded 2002 in Saint-Etienne (Loire), because of wish of two structures, one association and one hospital. What are the effects and the limits of the groups? The effects of such groups on the recidivism aren’t convincing, but it turns out that they are relevant for the expression, for the representations, for the reconnaissance of the facts, for the understanding of sanction, for the renewal of the relations with children, for the openness to the other modes of communication. Those limits are a programme with the intention of changing. This programme we have described as social support, according to a psycho-educational model, should not be comparable to a judicial system as it will change fundamentally positioning. We propose one program for prevention at the end of the thesis.

The problem of universal oppression has caused Gutierrez, Cone and Moltmann to advocate that God is orchestrating an historical programme of liberation from socio-economic, racial and political suffering. They feel that God's liberating actions can be seen in the Abrahamic promise, the exodus and the Christ-event. Moltmann, especially, has emphasized both the trinitarian identification with human pain and the influence of the freedom of the future upon the suffering of the present. According to our theologians, Jesus Christ identified with us, and died the death of a substitutionary victim. Through the resurrection, Jesus Christ overcame the problem of suffering and death, and inaugurated the New Age. The cross and resurrection were the focal point of God's liberating activity. Liberation, or freedom, from sin and suffering is now possible, at least proleptically. We are to understand the atonement as having been liberative rather than forensic or legal, although judgement is not ignored. Both the perpetrators of injustice and their victims are called upon to identify with, and struggle for, freedom, with the help of the liberating Christ. We agree with our theologians that God has historically indicated his desire for justice and freedom. The magnitude of evil and suffering still existing, however, forces us to abandon the idea that God is progressively liberating history. Nevertheless, we affirm the idea that the Trinity has absorbed human suffering into its own story through the incarnate Son. Jesus identified with suffering in a four-fold way, namely: its existence, the judgement of it, the overcoming of it, and the need to oppose it. This comprehensive identification gives Christ the right to demand the doing of justice, because the greatest injustice in history has happened to him. The atonement was forensic, rendering all people accountable to Christ; but it was also liberative, validating the struggle against oppression. Furthermore, at his second coming, Christ will be vindicated in whatever judgement he will exact upon the perpetrators of injustice or oppression. For today the resurrection still gives hope and faith to those who suffer and to those who identify with them / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / Th.D. (Systematic Theology)

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / A presente tese se propõe descrever e analisar as relações interpessoais entre mulheres, homens e profissionais das áreas do direito, psicologia e serviço social envolvidos na institucionalização da Lei 11.340/06, conhecida como Lei Maria da Penha (LMP), que rege hoje no Brasil os crimes de violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher. Inicialmente é apresentada uma concisa contextualização da LMP e do campo de debate em que se insere, além das principais mudanças introduzidas por ela em relação às antigas políticas. As controvérsias que a lei vem levantando e as modificações sofridas em pouco tempo de existência, apontam para as dificuldades em se estabelecer um consenso por parte dos operadores e formuladores da lei quanto à percepção da violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher como um crime e quanto a sua justa punição. Não só os operadores, mas as feministas também se envolveram em controvérsias teóricas em torno da distinção entre as definições de violência contra a mulher e de crime de violência contra a mulher. O esforço de se avançar na análise dessas categorias se justifica pelas dificuldades e impasses que se observam nas práticas institucionais na implementação da LMP. Essas práticas são descritas e analisadas a partir da incursão etnográfica em dois campos. No Juizado de Violência Doméstica e Familiar contra a Mulher participei de encontros de um grupo de reflexão para homens autores de violência, assisti audiências, entrevistei profissionais e dezoito homens envolvidos com a LMP. Os sentidos em disputa que os vários atores sociais constroem relativos aos conflitos violentos da intimidade ali julgados e suas relações com o exercício da(s) masculinidade(s) são discutidos. As informações do outro campo, um Centro de Referência da Mulher, provêm das observações de cenas do cotidiano institucional, do acompanhamento de atendimentos às usuárias, da participação em grupos de reflexão para as mulheres vítimas de violência e de entrevistas com duas profissionais e dezessete mulheres. É enfatizado o caráter de intervenção pedagógica das instituições que objetivam promover mudanças em caracteres considerados como de gênero de homens (a agressividade) e mulheres (a passividade) que estariam influenciando o engendramento e manutenção das violências. Nas entrevistas é ressaltado o que ecoa, corrobora, complementa, destoa ou mesmo mostra novos ângulos do que é apreendido nos grupos (confronto entre os sentidos da violência e suas relações com o que é ser homem e o que é ser mulher) e nas audiências (tendência à vitimização e à relativização dos papéis de vítima e acusado). Independente dos embates e controvérsias suscitadas, pode-se afirmar que a violência contra a mulher ingressou no mundo da lei nacional trazendo com sua institucionalização uma intensa circulação de diferentes sentidos, lógicas e moralidades que (re)modelam convenções sobre as relações de gêneros e sua influência sobre a citada violência. / This paper is designed to describe and analyze the interpersonal relationships among women, men and professionals in the fields of law, psychology and social service involved in the institutionalization of Law 11.340/06. Also known as the Maria da Penha Law (MPL), it currently governs in Brazil crimes of domestic violence against women. First, the paper presents a concise contextualization of the LMP and the field of debate in which it operates, besides the main changes introduced by the law in relation to the previous policy. The controversies the law has been raising and the modifications it underwent in a short period of existence bring obstacles to establish a consensus among operators and law makers in regards to the perception of domestic and family violence against women as a crime as well as their just punishment. Not only operators, but feminists were also involved in theoretical controversies surrounding the distinction between the definition of "violence against women" and "crime of violence against women." The effort to advance in the analysis of these categories is justified by the difficulties and dilemmas observed in institutional practices during the implementation of MPL. These practices are described and analyzed from the ethnographic incursion into two fields. In the Court of Domestic and Familiar Violence against Women, I attended meetings of a reflection group for men who commit violence, I watched hearings, and I interviewed professionals and eighteen men involved with MPL. This research discusses the senses in dispute that the various social actors construct concerning violent conflicts of the intimacy there judged, and their relations with the exercise of masculinity. Information collected from the other field, a Reference Center for Women, come from observations of everyday institutional scenes, from the follow up with female user of the Reference Center, and from participation in reflection groups for women victims of violence, besides interviews with two professionals and seventeen women. This paper emphasizes the character of pedagogical intervention of the institutions that aim to promote changes in characteristics considered typical of males (aggressiveness) and females (passive) that would be influencing the engendering and maintenance of violence. In the interviews it is emphasized what echoes, corroborates, complements, distunes or even shows new angles of what is comprehended in the groups (confrontation between the senses of violence and its relations with what means to be a man or to be a women) and in the hearings (tendency to victimization and relativization of the roles of the victim and the assaulter). Regardless the conflicts and controversies that are raised, it can be concluded that "violence against women" entered the world of national law with its institutionalization bringing an intense circulation of different meanings, logic and morals that are shaping and reshaping conventions on gender relations and its influence on the above-mentioned violence. Keywords: Maria da Penha Law. Violence against women. Reflection group of men perpetrators of violence. Reflection group of women victims of violence.

Financial reporting fraud is a concern for investors, regulators, external auditors, and the public. Although the responsibility for fraud detection lies upon management and those charged with governance, external auditors are likely to come under scrutiny if fraud scandals come to light. Despite the audit regulators efforts in fighting fraud, evidence from prior literature revealed that external auditors still need guidance in assessing and responding to fraud risks. Hence the current study aims at helping external auditors properly assess and respond to the risk of financial reporting fraud in an effort to increase the likelihood of detecting it. In order to achieve this, the current study sought to explore the significance of various fraud factors in assessing the risks of financial reporting fraud and examined how external auditors could assess these fraud factors. The current study also explored the likely motivations behind management fraud, the impact of management motivations on the financial statements, and how external auditors could assess the impact of management motivations. The data for the current study was collected from external auditors working at various audit firms in Egypt via the use of mixed research methods, namely through an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The findings of the current study revealed that management motives are the most significant factor in assessing the risk of financial reporting fraud. Hence the current study suggests that external audit should be viewed in terms of management motivations rather than just the audit of financial statements figures and disclosures. The current study offers detailed guidance to external auditors in this area. The findings of the current study also revealed that management integrity is a significant factor in assessing the risk of financial reporting fraud and that rationalisation of fraud should be assessed as part of management integrity rather than a separate fraud risk factor. The current study found that fraud perpetrators capabilities are equally significant to the opportunity to commit fraud factor yet it is currently ignored by the audit standards and thus should be assessed as part of opportunity to commit fraud. The current study was the first to explore financial reporting fraud and the extent by which external auditors comply with ISA 240 in the Egyptian context. The current study offered recommendations to external auditors, audit firms, audit regulators, and the Egyptian government on how to combat financial reporting fraud. Potential areas for future research were also identified by the current study.

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / A presente tese se propõe descrever e analisar as relações interpessoais entre mulheres, homens e profissionais das áreas do direito, psicologia e serviço social envolvidos na institucionalização da Lei 11.340/06, conhecida como Lei Maria da Penha (LMP), que rege hoje no Brasil os crimes de violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher. Inicialmente é apresentada uma concisa contextualização da LMP e do campo de debate em que se insere, além das principais mudanças introduzidas por ela em relação às antigas políticas. As controvérsias que a lei vem levantando e as modificações sofridas em pouco tempo de existência, apontam para as dificuldades em se estabelecer um consenso por parte dos operadores e formuladores da lei quanto à percepção da violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher como um crime e quanto a sua justa punição. Não só os operadores, mas as feministas também se envolveram em controvérsias teóricas em torno da distinção entre as definições de violência contra a mulher e de crime de violência contra a mulher. O esforço de se avançar na análise dessas categorias se justifica pelas dificuldades e impasses que se observam nas práticas institucionais na implementação da LMP. Essas práticas são descritas e analisadas a partir da incursão etnográfica em dois campos. No Juizado de Violência Doméstica e Familiar contra a Mulher participei de encontros de um grupo de reflexão para homens autores de violência, assisti audiências, entrevistei profissionais e dezoito homens envolvidos com a LMP. Os sentidos em disputa que os vários atores sociais constroem relativos aos conflitos violentos da intimidade ali julgados e suas relações com o exercício da(s) masculinidade(s) são discutidos. As informações do outro campo, um Centro de Referência da Mulher, provêm das observações de cenas do cotidiano institucional, do acompanhamento de atendimentos às usuárias, da participação em grupos de reflexão para as mulheres vítimas de violência e de entrevistas com duas profissionais e dezessete mulheres. É enfatizado o caráter de intervenção pedagógica das instituições que objetivam promover mudanças em caracteres considerados como de gênero de homens (a agressividade) e mulheres (a passividade) que estariam influenciando o engendramento e manutenção das violências. Nas entrevistas é ressaltado o que ecoa, corrobora, complementa, destoa ou mesmo mostra novos ângulos do que é apreendido nos grupos (confronto entre os sentidos da violência e suas relações com o que é ser homem e o que é ser mulher) e nas audiências (tendência à vitimização e à relativização dos papéis de vítima e acusado). Independente dos embates e controvérsias suscitadas, pode-se afirmar que a violência contra a mulher ingressou no mundo da lei nacional trazendo com sua institucionalização uma intensa circulação de diferentes sentidos, lógicas e moralidades que (re)modelam convenções sobre as relações de gêneros e sua influência sobre a citada violência. / This paper is designed to describe and analyze the interpersonal relationships among women, men and professionals in the fields of law, psychology and social service involved in the institutionalization of Law 11.340/06. Also known as the Maria da Penha Law (MPL), it currently governs in Brazil crimes of domestic violence against women. First, the paper presents a concise contextualization of the LMP and the field of debate in which it operates, besides the main changes introduced by the law in relation to the previous policy. The controversies the law has been raising and the modifications it underwent in a short period of existence bring obstacles to establish a consensus among operators and law makers in regards to the perception of domestic and family violence against women as a crime as well as their just punishment. Not only operators, but feminists were also involved in theoretical controversies surrounding the distinction between the definition of "violence against women" and "crime of violence against women." The effort to advance in the analysis of these categories is justified by the difficulties and dilemmas observed in institutional practices during the implementation of MPL. These practices are described and analyzed from the ethnographic incursion into two fields. In the Court of Domestic and Familiar Violence against Women, I attended meetings of a reflection group for men who commit violence, I watched hearings, and I interviewed professionals and eighteen men involved with MPL. This research discusses the senses in dispute that the various social actors construct concerning violent conflicts of the intimacy there judged, and their relations with the exercise of masculinity. Information collected from the other field, a Reference Center for Women, come from observations of everyday institutional scenes, from the follow up with female user of the Reference Center, and from participation in reflection groups for women victims of violence, besides interviews with two professionals and seventeen women. This paper emphasizes the character of pedagogical intervention of the institutions that aim to promote changes in characteristics considered typical of males (aggressiveness) and females (passive) that would be influencing the engendering and maintenance of violence. In the interviews it is emphasized what echoes, corroborates, complements, distunes or even shows new angles of what is comprehended in the groups (confrontation between the senses of violence and its relations with what means to be a man or to be a women) and in the hearings (tendency to victimization and relativization of the roles of the victim and the assaulter). Regardless the conflicts and controversies that are raised, it can be concluded that "violence against women" entered the world of national law with its institutionalization bringing an intense circulation of different meanings, logic and morals that are shaping and reshaping conventions on gender relations and its influence on the above-mentioned violence. Keywords: Maria da Penha Law. Violence against women. Reflection group of men perpetrators of violence. Reflection group of women victims of violence.

This thesis investigates the construction of the therapist-client alliance in the therapeutic setting with perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV). Moreover, it explores the ways a Feminist Ethics of Care perspective could enhance the partnership between the actors. To fulfil such aims, the author conducted six in-depth semi-structured interviews with psychologists working at one of the most renowned institutions for perpetrators of IPV in Norway and Sweden. The analysis of the psychologists' discourses demonstrates that several factors are influential in the alliance construction. The most important aspects are: the clients' perspective towards the psychologists; the therapists' views towards the clients; the psychologists' engagement with moral sentiments; the power struggle between the actors; and the use of techniques for the professionals to enhance their connection with the clients. Besides that, the discourses also show that moral superiority seems to guide the psychologists when relating with the perpetrators. Their views are embedded in an individualistic ethics based on the principles of Kohlberg's Ethics of Justice. The thesis suggests that a collective ethics such as Gilligan's Feminist Ethics of Care would enhance the partnership between the actors. This theoretical framework allows the psychologists to change their superior moral views of the clients to a moral responsibility towards them. When such movement in perspective happens, the therapists begin to see the perpetrators as human beings with many different facets. Consequently, they truly deny a judgmental impression towards their identity.