El trabajo en beneficio de la comunidad como pena para la violencia familiar
01 Jan 2007-Iss: 19, pp 397-426
TL;DR: The presente trabajo pretende abordar un aspecto de la penalidad sobre el que no se han centrado las aportaciones de los autoEL TRABAJO EN BENEFICIO DE LA COMUNIDAD COMO PENA PARA LA VIOLENCIA FAMILIAR.
Abstract: La discusion acerca de la legislacion mas reciente sobre la violencia domestica y de genero ha tendido a centrarse en general en el incremento punitivo experimentado en este ambito desde 1989 hasta la fecha, y en particular en la distinta penalidad prevista en algunos tipos penales cuando la victima es mujer pareja, y la posible vulneracion del principio de igualdad y de proporcionalidad en estos casos2. El presente trabajo pretende abordar un aspecto de la penalidad sobre el que no se han centrado las aportaciones de los autoEL TRABAJO EN BENEFICIO DE LA COMUNIDAD COMO PENA PARA LA VIOLENCIA FAMILIAR
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18 Nov 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with treatment orders or educational programs as a community penalty applied to people sentenced for gender violence, and try to focus on the problems that confront the different actors intervening in it.
Abstract: This paper deals with ‘treatment orders’ or ‘educational programs’ as a community penalty applied to people sentenced for gender violence. The paper follows the implementation of this penalty and tries to focus on the problems that confront the different actors intervening in it. In the first part the judicial system is analyzed, in the second we show the problems that face the probation officers in Catalunya, and finally we approach the perspective of the psychologists who are directly engaged in the work with the men sentenced for gender violence.
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