Cárcel y familiarismo: ¿Usamos a las familias como agencias de reinserción?
13 Jan 2019-Vol. 16, Iss: 16, pp 1604
TL;DR: In this article, the implications and dangers of presenting families as the main agents of the reentry process are discussed, as well as the problems of transferring into families those functions that should be responsibility of the State.
Abstract: Generally, the analysis of punishment and the effects of imprisonment has only focused on offenders, leaving families in the background without paying attention to the negative effects that prison entails for them. However, some national and international studies have highlighted how families are a key agent in reentry, becoming the main responsible for receiving and supporting people who is released from prison. Although in the Spanish context there are few studies that have focused on the relationship between family and prison, this work arise from the previous literature to propose that there are reasons to consider families as reentry agencies insofar as they are developing functions assigned to this type of institutions (housing, support and supervision). With this purpose, we offer reasons that can explain this situation, highlighting how the prison may be acting as a transmitting institution of traditional family values that characterize Spanish society. Finally, the implications and dangers of presenting families as the main agents of the reentry process are discussed, as well as the problems of transferring into families those functions that should be responsibility of the State.
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28 Dec 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze a miority within a minority, adding the variable of the matenity: offender juvenile pregnant or mothers, and analyze how these cultural categories have been reinterpreted, re-signified or they have new approaches with the main aim to know another speeches and practices in the maternity sociocultural process.
Abstract: In this article, we analyze a miority within a minority, adding the variable of the matenity: offender juvenile pregnant or mothers. This group, due to its exceptionality, deserves to be studied, to clarify its contexts, meaning and to improve our work with them. For this, we will show a journey from de current regulations to the social work, ending whith some conclusions from anthropology to show the main aspects about the ma(pa)ternity, the pregnant, the labour and the upbringing inside of a prison for juvenile offenders. An institution where the sentences have to be implemented and this social process change into a fundamental cultural variable to these group as a decontextualized a new social role. With this environmental context we analyze how these cultural categories have been reinterpreted, re-signified or they have new approaches with the main aim to know another speeches and practices in the maternity sociocultural process.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used self-reported data of 494 inmates in the final phase of their sentence to analyze the variables related to the probability of receiving a sanction during incarceration in order to propose prevention measures and new hypotheses for future research.
Abstract: The study of prison misconduct and the use of sanctions is relevant to improve the safety and quality of life of those imprisoned people. Comparative literature departs from three theoretical perspectives on this regard: those that explain misbehavior as a consequence of the experience of incarceration, those that do it based on the characteristics of the imprisoned individuals, and those centered on the relationship between those who are serving a sentence and professionals, and with the penitentiary institution. However, in the Spanish context there is a lack of studies on this subject. This study uses self-reported data of 494 inmates in the final phase of their sentence to analyze the variables related to the probability of receiving a sanction during incarceration in order to propose prevention measures and new hypotheses for future research.
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29 Apr 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a discussion with James B. Jacobs, author of the classic study on the sociology of prisons Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society, and examine the validity of his work 40 years later.
Abstract: espanolEste texto pertenece a una mesa redonda que ofrece un debate con James B. Jacobs, autor del clasico de la sociologia de las prisiones Stateville: The penitentiary in mass society, sobre la vigencia de su obra cuarenta anos despues. Este comentario presenta una reflexion acerca de las razones que han podido llevar al surgimiento de las prisiones privadas, confrontando argumentos que defienden su surgimiento por razones pragmaticas con otros que las situan como producto de la expansion hacia el castigo de la ideologia neoliberal. Por ultimo, se realiza una breve reflexion acerca de la posibilidad de que en el futuro este tipo de instituciones lleguen al contexto espanol. EnglishThis text forms part of a round table discussion with James B. Jacobs, author of the classic study on the sociology of prisons Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society, and examines the validity of his work 40 years later. The commentary presents some thoughts on the reasons that have led to the emergence of private prisons. Arguments that defend privately operated penal facilities for pragmatic reasons are contrasted against those that view them as a product of an expanding neoliberal ideology towards punishment. Finally, a brief reflection is made about the possibility of introducing this kind of institutions in Spanish in the near future. catalaAquest text pertany a una taula rodona que ofereix un debat amb James B. Jacobs, autor del classic de la sociologia de les presons Stateville: The penitentiary in mass society, sobre la vigencia de la seva obra quaranta anys despres. Aquest comentari presenta una reflexio sobre les raons que han pogut portar al sorgiment de les presons privades, confrontant arguments que en defensen el sorgiment per raons pragmatiques amb uns altres que les situen com a producte de l'expansio cap al castig de la ideologia neoliberal. Finalment, es fa una breu reflexio sobre la possibilitat que en el futur aquest tipus d'institucions arribin al context espanyol.