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El populismo está presente en la vida política y en la utilización del derecho penal, operando como fundamento real de las leyes penales que, por ese vicio de origen, dejan de ser las propias de un Estado social y democrático de Derecho. Las conquistas políticas y jurídicas del derecho penal, su orientación a la protección de valores y bienes necesarios para la convivencia pasan a un segundo plano ante los intereses populistas, sectarios por naturaleza, y que fían en la represión como respuesta única y mejor a todo problema social o a las acciones que se decide incriminar para conseguir el aplauso popular. La reflexión jurídica sobre la función y los fines del derecho penal es tildada de argumentación antidemocrática. La invocación de las víctimas, como seres olvidados por el derecho penal, completa la perversión de la ideología populista.

Objective: This study seeks to explore, describe, and quantify the effects that the experiences of incarceration have on women in prison contexts in Argentina. Methodology: The results of an original database were analyzed. The database includes two surveys conducted by the Center for Latin American Studies on Insecurity and Violence (CELIV/UNTREF) in 2013 and 2019 in prisons of the Federal and Buenos Aires Penitentiary System. The sample consisted of 845 males and 188 females who participated in the survey in 2013, and 838 males and 200 females in 2019. Results: The results of this study indicate that there are gender differences in the effects of incarceration on the inside, which are mainly crystallized in the behavior of the nearby containment networks. For women, contact with their emotional environment is more limited than for men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay problematizes the transformations of punishment in societies of control. To do so, it reconstructs the hypothesis, current in contemporary literature, that we are living in a prison era. The problem is that this hypothesis takes the disciplinary prison as the model for controls, imagining the economy of penality as a historical invariant. As a result, it describes contemporary social formations as “portable prisons”, “prison capitalism”, “open-air prison societies”. In order to correct what we believe to be a misunderstanding, we propose a re-reading of the main contributions of the debate on societies of control in order to reposition both the meaning of penality in these emerging social formations and to take up the abolitionist debate, in a historically situated way, on the obsolescence of prisons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El Tratamiento Breve de Activación Conductual para Depresión (BATD-R) orienta actividades reforzantes para intervenir sintomatología depresiva. El objetivo fue establecer el efecto del tratamiento en formato grupal (BATD-G) en una muestra no probabilística de seis hombres exmiembros de la fuerza pública privados de la libertad, con depresión. Se utilizó un estudio de caso único A-B con seguimiento. Los instrumentos fueron la Escala de Observación de Recompensa del Entorno, la Escala de Activación Conductual para Depresión, la Escala de Zung para depresión y los Formatos de monitoreo diario. Se encontró que el BATD-G tuvo efecto en la frecuencia de conductas saludables y depresivas, según las diferencias estadísticamente significativas, entre la línea de base, y tratamiento, así como la estabilidad del cambio en el seguimiento. Al mismo tiempo se encontraron cambios clínicos en las medidas de percepción de reforzamiento medioambiental y factores de cambio de la Activación Conductual (activación, evitación/rumia, afectación laboral/académica y deterioro social). Los tamaños del efecto fueron grandes según el no solapamiento de todos los pares en las conductas depresivas, saludables y estado del ánimo. Se concluyó que la intervención tuvo el efecto esperado en formato grupal para esta población, y fueron coherentes con las teorías de la activación conductual.

This article studies the real experiences of the previously incarcerated homeless population in the city of Valencia. After examining existing published national and international literature for the links between the phenomena of incarceration and homelessness, it established indicators that can measure the social exclusion resulting from their intersection. Following this, dichotomous variables were selected (length of imprisonment and the current category of homelessness) and a typological sample group of previously incarcerated and currently homeless population was formed. In-depth interviews focusing on the preestablished indicators were conducted with the group and in parallel, social professionals and/or experts who work with the affected population were also interviewed. Finally, using the Atlas.ti.23 programme, the adversities that the study's target group faces were described and the impact that the length of the incarceration and the category of homelessness had on the group's chances of social inclusion was analysed. This study also presents proposals to combat the resulting extreme social exclusion. In this sense, it highlights the importance of support programmes following prison release that are based, amongst other factors, on the provision of a home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En Colombia, la Ley 65 de 1993 estipula que el fin de la pena es la resocialización, por lo que el Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario (Inpec) ha generado estrategias mediante alternativas de formación, ocupación y fortalecimiento personal para facilitar el proceso de reinserción social. Sin embargo, poco se conoce acerca de la percepción que tienen las personas privadas de la libertad sobre los procesos a los cuales son vinculados para su resocialización. En este estudio sociojurídico se aplicó una metodología cualitativa de tipo descriptiva para analizar variables y comprender experiencias o conceptos subjetivos de las personas privadas de la libertad, frente a las categorías asociadas a la comprensión de la resocialización en un establecimiento penitenciario del Distrito Judicial de San Gil. En ese sentido, se identificaron cuatro categorías específicas que exponen la necesidad de reconocer y contrastar el derrotero institucional, normativo y vivencial con respecto a la comprensión de la resocialización en la dogmática penal. Se encontró que para las personas privadas de la libertad el concepto de resocialización está relacionado con un cambio actitudinal de carácter volitivo al interior del establecimiento, pero proyectado a la vida en libertad, relacionándolo con el compromiso personal, la oferta de programas que atiendan las problemáticas y favorezcan el desarrollo de habilidades/competencias individuales, así como la red de apoyo en la que se soporta.

Este artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar sobre cómo experimentan las mujeres privadas de libertad su salida de los centros penitenciarios ordinarios, en concreto, analizo las formas en que la casa de acogida combina funciones como dispositivo de control y de acompañamiento en sus permisos y salidas. En este contexto, las fronteras entre el adentro y el afuera de la prisión parecen diluirse y cobrando cada vez más importancia explorar las continuidades-discontinuidades del castigo. Esto me lleva a reflexionar, desde la metodología etnográfica, sobre cómo, una vez que salen, viven otros tipos de encierros a través de la extensión del control. Las experiencias de privación de libertad de las mujeres están marcadas por distintas capas entretejidas de control social, aparte del propio sistema penitenciario. En este contexto, este recurso externo de acogida constituye una de ellas, pues nos permite examinar cómo este control continúa estando presente en las vidas en semi-libertad y, en ocasiones, en libertad. Un trabajo de campo realizado entre 2017 y 2021 en la Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía, en un centro penitenciario ordinario y un centro de inserción social mixtos, en un recurso de Casa de Acogida para mujeres en segundo y tercer grado y en una asociación que interviene en prisión y acompaña procesos en el exterior.

¿Por qué no se soluciona la crisis carcelaria en Ecuador? Esta pregunta lleva a explorar la problemática penitenciaria desde sus orígenes hasta llegar al contexto ecuatoriano actual. El objetivo es reflexionar y demostrar que las prisiones y la privación de libertad han mantenido la misma dinámica desde sus orígenes, causando sufrimiento y dolor a los reclusos, en contraposición a la fnalidad resocializadora de la pena; el contexto actual demuestra que la gestión penitenciaria no ha evolucionado, pese al desarrollo científico y normativo de esta rama. El enfoque cualitativo y socio-jurídico son la base de la investigación porque a través del diseño narrativo se describe de forma secuencial la historia del sistema penitenciario, el avance normativo y se compara con la realidad social; es decir, se hace un acercamiento del derecho a la sociedad a través de la revisión documental de fuentes secundarias. En definitiva, se concluye que no existe la voluntad política del Estado para abordar el problema de forma técnica y con el personal especializado, tal como sugiere la doctrina; al contrario, la crisis carcelaria en Ecuador tiene un tinte anacrónico, deshumanizante y alejado de la finalidad de la pena; es decir, no hay rehabilitación ni resocialización.

La presencia de agrupaciones del crimen organizado transnacional junto a otros aspectos en el contexto penitenciario y las condiciones de infraestructura y de dotación de los centros de rehabilitación social que se conjugan con la sobrepoblación que ocasiona el hacinamiento, se ubican como las principales causas de la crisis del sector penitenciario que ha traído como consecuencia situaciones de extrema violencia. La investigación realizada se enmarca en el estudio de la crisis carcelaria como un problema global, y tiene como objetivo realizar un análisis de la crisis penitenciaria en el Ecuador y la intervención de la cooperación internacional como un mecanismo para coadyuvar en asuntos de seguridad interna, especialmente mediante el apoyo a la lucha contra el crimen transnacional organizado, el cual se ha infltrado en los centros de privación de la libertad. Mediante el empleo del método de análisis documental, se ha procurado el estudio de la situación carcelaria, la incidencia del crimen organizado y la necesidad de plantear soluciones en la esfera de la cooperación internacional; particularmente se describen los aspectos más relevantes del Programa de Asistencia contra el Crimen Transnacional Organizado Europa Latinoamérica procurando mostrar las posibles soluciones a la crisis descrita. Como conclusión, se muestra la relación existente entre distintos flagelos como la corrupción y la vulneración de los derechos humanos como aspectos que deberán ser atendidos.

En este artículo se busca explicar la situación jurídica de la población penitenciaria con discapacidad en el Perú. Para ello, se realiza un estudio sobre las personas con discapacidad dentro de la realidad penitenciaria peruana, seguido por el análisis del marco jurídico respectivo, así como los avances y desafíos locales de sus derechos. Se propone mejoras al sistema penitenciario en aras de brindar una mayor accesibilidad, disponibilidad, aceptabilidad e inclusión en los establecimientos carcelarios. Estas mejoras consisten en el trato humano de la vulnerabilidad en reemplazo de la política resocializadora tradicional en tanto fnalidad de la pena y la instauración de juzgados de ejecución penal para el procesamiento de los benefcios penitenciarios. Se emplea una metodología cualitativa con diseño documental y alcance descriptivo. Por último, como principales hallazgos, dada la extrema vulnerabilidad en que vive la población penitenciaria con discapacidad en el Perú, se destaca la necesidad de dotar a la pena de prisión de fundamentos políticos distributivos, facilitando así la alineación con estándares internacionales de derechos humanos que prioricen la reducción de barreras estructurales. En este respecto, es viable la adopción de la política del trato humano y la implementación de juzgados de ejecución penal con la fnalidad de reducir la vulnerabilidad de los reclusos con discapacidad y promover el respeto de sus derechos fundamentales.

La investigación social y criminológica sobre violencia hacia mujeres en relaciones de pareja ha despertado diversos debates académicos. Sin embargo, dada la escasez de estudios cualitativos focalizados en varones agresores, la reflexión sobre las dificultades y los procesos de trabajo de campo implicados en estas investigaciones ha recibido exigua atención. A partir de cuatro estudios cualitativos sobre perpetradores de violencia hacia sus parejas mujeres en América Latina, este artículo reconstruye los principales problemas éticos y metodológicos encontrados en experiencias de trabajo de campo en instituciones para varones con conductas violentas. Se identificaron cuatro ejes problemáticos: comités de ética, pedidos institucionales, coacción de participantes, y protección de los entrevistados. Las particularidades de las instituciones y de las racionalidades de los actores sociales imprimen tensiones y obligan a repensar los modos de realizar entrevistas. Discutimos la necesidad de explicitar los desafíos institucionales y éticos en los estudios sobre violencia en publicaciones académicas.

España, a pesar de tener una de las mayores tasas de encarcelamiento en Europa, tiene una población penitenciaria femenina minoritaria y discriminada. Las prisiones, diseñadas para hombres, no consideran las necesidades específicas de las mujeres, relegándolas a espacios secundarios. Esta situación se agrava para las mujeres que cumplen condena con sus hijos, un subgrupo aún más minoritario. Solo existen cuatro unidades de madres (en Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia y Aranjuez) y cuatro unidades externas (en Fontcalent, Sevilla, Madrid y Mallorca). Esta dispersión geográfica dificulta el mantenimiento de relaciones sociales, esenciales para la reinserción, y afecta negativamente a los menores, alejándolos de su entorno familiar. Estudios recientes destacan la necesidad de mejorar las condiciones de estas mujeres, especialmente a través de programas que aborden problemas comunes como la depresión y la ansiedad. Este trabajo analiza las características de las mujeres encarceladas, con especial atención a las de etnia gitana, y cómo el sistema penitenciario maneja su situación. Utilizando una metodología mixta, se realizó una revisión bibliográfica para la parte teórica y se analizaron datos empíricos de mujeres gitanas encarceladas en el sur de España, parte de un proyecto de investigación más amplio1. Se concluye que las madres encarceladas enfrentan problemas específicos relacionados con su maternidad, que el sistema penitenciario trata principalmente con medicación en lugar de programas de apoyo psicológico. El tamaño reducido del grupo estudiado impide generalizar los resultados, considerándose este análisis como exploratorio.

Desde hace al menos cuatro décadas, la noción de capital social ha sido muy socorrida en las ciencias sociales. Aquí atiendo a dicho concepto desde las aproximaciones más empíricas que se han desarrollado recientemente. En particular, recupero el enfoque contextual del capital social de Baycan y Öner (2022) para explorar sus efectos variables en el marco de las discusiones sobre el delito, el castigo y las trayectorias posteriores al encierro penitenciario. En ese sentido, la intención es superar las perspectivas que se agotan en sus rasgos positivos, para desarrollar una mirada atenta a sus múltiples fuentes –mediante vínculos fuertes o débiles– y a sus efectos igualmente negativos.

El presente estudio tuvo como propósito principal determinar la relación entre la ansiedad y las estrategias de afrontamiento empleadas por personas privadas de la libertad (PPL) en el EPMSC Establecimiento de Reclusión Especial Barranquilla-Cárcel del Bosque. Para ello se siguió una ruta de investigación cuantitativa, de diseño no experimental, transversal y de alcance correlacional. La muestra estuvo conformada por 98 PPL, en edades entre 19 y 73 años, a quienes se aplicaron los instrumentos Escala de Valoración de la Ansiedad de Hamilton y Escala de Estrategias de Afrontamiento de Coping Modificada. Los resultados señalan niveles moderados de ansiedad, siendo los PPL más jóvenes (19-27 años) los que presentan mayor ansiedad psíquica; las personas mayores de 50 años tienden más a buscar solución a los problemas. Se concluye que a mayores niveles de ansiedad mayor relación con la estrategia de afrontamiento reacción agresiva.

There are specific treatment programs in prisons for those convicted of sexually assaulting minors; however, those who also have pedophilia require specific attention. The aim of this study is twofold: first, to offer a specific intervention proposal for pedophilia in the prison setting based on the available scientific evidence, and complementary to the Sexual Assault Control Program, and second, to justify this proposal through the case of an inmate with pedophilia. Specifically, we propose an individual intervention focused on people with pedophilia; working on low self-esteem, assessing suicidal ideation, and restructuring cognitive distortions with minors, facilitating the creation of functional personal relationships with adults, assessing past polyvictimization and its possible influence on subsequent sexual behavior, providing inmates with psychoeducation on pedophilia; specifically addressing sexual fantasies with minors, avoiding dissexual behavior, and eliminating the consumption of abusive material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are specific treatment programs in prisons for those convicted of sexually assaulting minors; however, those who also have pedophilia require specific attention. The aim of this study is twofold: first, to offer a specific intervention proposal for pedophilia in the prison setting based on the available scientific evidence, and complementary to the Sexual Assault Control Program, and second, to justify this proposal through the case of an inmate with pedophilia. Specifically, we propose an individual intervention focused on people with pedophilia; working on low self-esteem, assessing suicidal ideation and restructuring cognitive distortions with minors, facilitating the creation of functional personal relationships with adults, assessing past polyvictimization and its possible influence on subsequent sexual behavior, providing inmates with psychoeducation on pedophilia; specifically addressing sexual fantasies with minors, avoiding dyssexual behavior, and eliminating the consumption of abusive material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the enactment of the 1991 Colombian Constitution, a legal and institutional framework has been established to address the political demands of multiculturalism. This article examines the incarceration of indigenous individuals in this multicultural context and highlights the various factors influencing the adoption of penal confinement as a response to indigenous criminal behavior. The article traces the process by which indigenous special jurisdiction has embraced incarceration over the past two decades and examines the potential factors that have led to transcending the multicultural boundary with imprisonment as the dominant punitive form. The emergence of a special legal subject--the incarcerated indigenous individual--indicates the outcome of this collision between legal worlds, placing them in the liminal space of identity uncertainty, reintegration impossibility, and the latent potential for the disappearance of their cultural identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Elderly prisoners are a minority in the prison population but their number is increasing compared to other groups. Mental health problems in elderly prisoners can be caused by the length of the detention period, being separated from family and partners, and conflicts that occur between inmates in prison which worsen the mental health conditions of elderly prisoners. Research on mental health problems in elderly prisoners is also still limited. Method: A scoping review study design was used. Articles searched through PubMed, EBSCO, ProQuest, Sage Journal, and Google Scholar. Articles published from 2000 to 2023. The keywords used in English are "Elderly", "Mental Health Problems", and "Prisoners. Results: Of the nine articles analyzed, we found the mental health problems of elderly prisoners were anxiety, agoraphobia, depression, bipolar, personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide risk, mood disorders, psychosis spectrum disorders or schizophrenia, and alcohol abuse or dependence. Conclusions: Based on several findings, it is recommended for further research focus on providing appropriate interventions for elderly prisoners who experience mental health problems, as well as identifying the extent of mental health services for elderly prisoners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to understand the repercussions of prison for female companions of imprisoned men. Twelve female companions of male prisoners participated in the study. Data were collected through a sociodemographic data questionnaire and a semi-structured interview, and submitted to Thematic Analysis. There was an important change in the women's entire lives after the arrest of their partners, considering experiences directly related to prison, as well as repercussions on their lives in general, which went beyond direct contact with the prison context. It is considered necessary to highlight the processes to which these women are exposed, as well as to legitimize their experiences, intertwined in a process of significant increase in incarceration in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on all spheres of social life, generating deep cleavages whose inscriptions in the psyche are still diffuse and difficult to apprehend from the prism of the Social Sciences. Both the prolonged isolation, the curtailment of social life, the proximity of death and the omnipresent experience of risk of exponential contagion, represented a strongly anxiety-inducing scenario, where the uncertainty of the existential future became the main epochal anchor. However, within the unprecedented coordinates of strong turbulence and unpredictability in the times of COVID-19, due to its endemic confinement, prison contexts were one of the most vulnerable scenarios. In this framework of greater isolation, within INISA, which is the institution in charge of managing the deprivation of liberty of adolescents in Uruguay, video calls were enabled in an unprecedented way, an aspect that progressively became established as a tool within of psychosocial technical teams. This article aims to problematize and systematize, in an exploratory manner, various experiences and hermeneutical categories associated with the use of techno-communication platforms as psychosocial intervention tools in prison settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text describes the implementation of the residential pre-release program in the Uruguayan prison system, which is based on the risk-need-responsivity model (RNR). This model, developed by Canadian researchers, is the one with the greatest empirical evidence of effectiveness in the treatment of criminal behavior. The program described here was designed in 2021, and its main purpose is to reduce the likelihood of recidivism. It focuses on people at high risk of recidivism, addressing their criminogenic needs in an intensive and structured manner. The results of institutional monitoring showed that 96 people participated in the program, of which 61 were released. Of those released, 28 % returned to prison within one year of release, while 24 % have remained at liberty for more than one year. International evidence indicates that treatment programs based on RNR have a reduction in recidivism between 12 % and 50 %, which varies according to different factors, including the definition of recidivism reported by each study, the time period to be considered for measuring results, the number of principles of the model applied, the fidelity of the programs in their implementation, and the training of those who carry them out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present the results of the systematization and analysis of the final papers of the Peer Tutoring course (TEP) with students from the University of the Republic (Udelar) in prison (EUPL). This course was designed to strengthen the entrance and retention of Udelar students in general from the perspective of collaborative learning, which has an impact on the dynamism of learning processes both for those who tutor and for those who are tutored. The TEP developed lines focus on populations or situations that merit specific educational support, including those oriented to EUPL. This specificity invites us to problematize the scope of the TEP in this context as well as to think about the new meanings that the tutors construct. Since it is a central part of the university policy of teaching in prisons, this article focuses specifically on the subjective discursive constructions of the tutors. To achieve this, we use a methodology of documented review of the final papers of those who took the peer tutoring course in the 2019 and 2020 cohorts. The results we present here refer to the learning and subjectivity production processes of the peer tutors after taking the TEP course, as exposed in these papers, distinguishing three dimensions: the vision of the prison after having been tutors in that context, the perspective of education in prisons, and the implications of the TEP in the personal learning trajectories of those who carried out the tutoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is one of the products of a research project about student trajectories in incarceration in the University of the Republic. The information was gathered using a mixed-method approach, which included the application of a semi-closed form combined with workshops and interviews in the various prisons that make up the university circuit of Udelar. From this application, data on the perceptions of those who study at the university regarding their place in identity construction, teaching-learning strategies, and the policies deployed by the institution were obtained. This article addresses the perception of students about central university policy, particularly regarding teaching-learning strategies and institutional deployment in the territory. By "central," it refers to those policies that do not depend on the faculties but are promoted as policy for all people, regardless of the careers they choose to pursue at Udelar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work addresses the treatment that some Argentine prisons give to the bodies that pass through prisons from the perspective of detained women and their relatives. The proposal consists of exploring some stories linked to the ways in which mothers have gone through the deaths of their sons in the context of prison. It explores how violence is produced and reproduced in Argentine prisons and what the role of women is as detainees or family members in dealing with this pain. How is death processed when prison imposes its borders? What are the roles that men and women assume to process this pain? It also explores the specific ways of desubjectivizing pain that prison aims to impose, with the purpose of reflecting on the affective forms that people construct even in these contexts. The article is based on fieldwork begun ten years ago with relatives of detainees. It is a multi-situated ethnography that follows people linked to penal institutions. Fieldwork also included life histories with women deprived of liberty in a prison in the province of Buenos Aires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the possible contributions of development studies to university education in prisons, from the work in the Central Team of Students in Deprivation of Liberty (EPL) of Udelar (Universidad de la república) and the bibliographic review of the specific literature on the subject. It seeks to contribute to the debates on higher education in prisons, from development perspectives, linking theories to a particular program. In particular, it will discuss the link between education in prisons, the capabilities approach, the rights perspective, human development and within this, universities for development as one of the central lines for university policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses a reality insufficiently studied in penitentiary centers: the impact of participation in leisure, sports, and cultural activities on the desistance process of incarcerated individuals and as a protective factor against committing new crimes. It was carried out in one of the eight ordinary regime penitentiary centers that the Generalitat of Catalonia (Spain) has in its territory. In this exploratory research, a quantitative design was chosen to allow a static, confirmatory reading of the benefits of leisure, sports, and cultural activities in penitentiary contexts, focusing on improving competencies that benefit desistance processes. The results show the perceived benefits by the incarcerated individuals and how these influence positive identity construction processes. Some recommendations derived from the results obtained are provided, which may suggest actions in penitentiary treatment and the design of public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzes conflicts in interpersonal relationships among women in prison in Spain. Three indicators of low conflict were identified: minimal number of sanctions, typology of crimes, and avoidance practices. The factors of incidence found are internal conflict, family/social conflict, and coexistence in a single module. The need for socio-educational programs and penitentiary policies with a gender perspective is emphasized. [Extracted from the article]

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Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common in people with serious mental illness who come into contact with the criminal justice system. Little evidence exists on EMDR treatment in forensic mental health, with no prior qualitative research exploring lived experience perspectives. Objective: This qualitative study recruited adult forensic mental health patients with PTSD and psychotic disorders, predominantly schizophrenia, who had received EMDR as part of a clinical trial, either in prison or in hospital. We sought to understand their experiences of EMDR therapy while receiving forensic care. Method: Ten in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews were undertaken and analysed using thematic analysis. We used an inductive, realist approach, reporting the experiences, meanings, and reality of the participants. Results: Five overarching themes were identified. First, severe trauma was ubiquitous and participants felt Seriously Messed Up by their traumatic experiences, with debilitating and enduring PTSD symptoms contributing to offending and psychosis ('giving the voices something to feed on'). Second, EMDR was regarded with Early Scepticism. Third, the therapy itself was initially emotionally taxing and Not Easy but participants generally felt safe and persevered. Fourth, they were often surprised and delighted by results (And it Worked!), describing significant symptom reduction and personal transformation. Lastly, EMDR Fits the Forensic Setting, bringing empowerment in a place perceived as disempowering. People reported changes that increased their hope in a violence-free future. Conclusions: The limited research on EMDR in forensic mental health is unfortunate given how common PTSD is in mentally unwell offenders and its potential to impede recovery and contribute to further offending. This first qualitative study found participants experienced positive transformative change, extending beyond symptom reduction. Themes support previously published quantitative outcomes showing EMDR to be safe and effective in this cohort. EMDR was well suited to a forensic setting and was seen as an empowering therapy. Trial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry identifier: ACTRN12618000683235. Study registration: The study was registered on the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Network, registration number ACTRN12618000683235 (registered prospectively, 24 April 2018), This study canvases the lived experiences of forensic patients receiving EMDR for PTSD – people whose views are seldom captured. They described being profoundly impacted by trauma, developing debilitating and enduring PTSD symptoms which variably contribute to offending and psychosis. Participants did not have favourable first impressions when they first heard about EMDR, thinking it 'quackery'. However, they were surprised and delighted by results, with the majority describing marked symptom reduction and personal transformation. Having targeted some of the underlying drivers of maladaptive behaviour, people reported hope for a better future. EMDR was well suited to a forensic setting and was seen as an empowering therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En el presente texto exploro de qué manera las relaciones que involucran a agentes universitarios con trabajadores penitenciarios y personas privadas de libertad están atravesadas por connotaciones morales. Encarar esta cuestión conlleva necesariamente el ejercicio de indagar sobre el lugar que ocupan las fronteras morales obturando/posibilitando cursos particulares de acción. ¿Qué hacemos cuando hacemos extensión universitaria en cárceles? ¿Quién “merece” recibir educación superior en estos contextos y cómo opera la “vulnerabilidad” cuando pensamos la administración de la pena sobre ciertos sujetos? ¿Qué significa tener “compromiso” en estos territorios y qué sentir “aversión” ante determinadas personas detenidas? ¿Y si la “aversión” se dirige hacia trabajadoras del Servicio Penitenciario qué sustancia nutre el “compromiso” de derechos humanos que asume la universidad? Me interesa indagar sobre las asimetrías generadas en torno al “compromiso” y la “aversión” con sus respectivos procesos de sujeción/subjetivación que convierten a algunas personas privadas de la libertad en presos “apreciados” y a otros en “despreciados”. Las reflexiones giran en torno a algunos acontecimientos observados durante el trabajo de campo: escenas etnográficas, análisis de documentos y programas de gobierno en los que se busca examinar cómo los derechos humanos son impregnados moralmente.

Las acciones de intervención/tratamiento penitenciario están orientadas a abordar la in/reinserción de las personas penadas; sin embargo, se tienen escasos referentes y resultados de dichas acciones. El objeto de este trabajo es analizar los programas de intervención en España y su relación con los procesos de in/reinserción y reincidencia femenina. Se realizó un análisis descriptivo univariante y bivariado sobre una muestra de 310 mujeres reclusas encuestadas en régimen abierto. Los resultados indican que los programas de educación para el empleo son los más requeridos, le siguen los de habilidades para la vida diaria y los de violencia de género. Existe mayor participación en régimen ordinario (entre 50 y 60%), destacando las reincidentes (75.3%), lo cual cuestiona la adecuación de sus necesidades en las acciones profesionales. Los hallazgos muestran la importancia de actualizar la intervención-acción penitenciaria desde una perspectiva socioeducativa y de género, adaptada a las características de las mujeres para su in/reinserción.

Las cárceles han llamado la atención de la sociología al ser una institución dentro de la sociedad y, al mismo tiempo, comportarse como una sociedad en sí misma, con sus propios códigos y normas. Sykes la llamó “sociedad de los cautivos”, por cuanto asume que los procesos de adaptación tenían que ver con aspectos endógenos de la propia prisión y no con características exógenas, como las trayectorias de las personas encarceladas o los barrios de los que provienen. Esta investigación, realizada en dos cárceles chilenas usando una metodología cualitativa, analizó cómo se conforman los roles entre internos, para explorar la vigencia de lo señalado por Sykes. Nuestros hallazgos sugieren que: (i) las relaciones entre internos se caracterizan por fuertes asimetrías de poder y (ii) los roles y funciones están marcados por lo que ocurre en los barrios de proveniencia, lo que sugiere que en el siglo XXI barrio y cárcel tienen fronteras porosas. Finalmente, discutimos las implicancias de esta porosidad para repensar los programas de reinserción.

El artículo tiene por objetivo central indagar –a partir de noticias publicadas en los diarios de Córdoba La Voz del Interior y Los Principios–, sobre el modo en qué se desarrolló el complejo proceso político y social que derivó en mayo de 1973 en la liberación de personas presas en aquella provincia. En particular, examinaremos los desmanes y fugas producidos por la población penada de la Cárcel de Encausados y del Asilo Correccional del Buen Pastor. Asimismo, veremos las tensiones existentes entre los presos políticos –beneficiados por el indulto presidencial– y los presos comunes, que no fueron incluidos en esa medida.

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The essay we present in various voices aims to develop a profound ponder that reflects our journey through prisons as higher education teachers. Among our intentions is to systematize the pedagogical practice that we carry out based on the fact that we are not part of a penitentiary-reintegration pedagogy, which is why we are interested in exposing our teaching position from a critical approach towards the penitentiary system and its insistence on overshadowing everything that seeks to subvert or escape punishment as a notion that regulates and constrains subjectivity. Against the grain, we maintain that Education in Contexts of Punitive Confinement promotes spaces for dialogue that open processes of human dignity, recognizing subjects beyond the figure of the criminal. This is how we consider it relevant to analyze our teaching experience in prison, highlighting that it is part of a collaborative process where ethical and political positions also promote questioning the paradoxes entailed by the aspiration to make the right to education effective in confinement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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