CRIME

Author: CORREA SABAT PATRICIA JOANNA.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The thesis is a comparative study of six Latin American cities, San Jose, Costa Rica, Colombia Bogota, Rio de Janeiro of Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Paraguay and The Assumption of peace in Bolivia. The goal is to analyze the violence from the perspective of citizens, namely through the social construction that takes place in it. It discusses the following dimensions: the levels of victimization, their relationship to sociodemographic variables and socioespaciales, the perception of insecurity, the assessment of the Police and the rate of complaints. The research is the principal source International Victimization Survey of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNlCRI). As a secondary source is the Census population of each country in such a way to characterize the cities according to population data, demographic and social affairs. Reference is also made to other variables such as levels of poverty and inequality in the cities. The pattern of violence in the cities under consideration relate primarily to its population size, levels of urbanization and reached levels of social inequalities. Moreover, crime is not distributed randomly among the population, there are more vulnerable than others. Another element to emphasize that the investigation is public insecurity is not always correlate with the levels of victimization. In other words, there is a gap between the objective and subjective insecurity. The delinquency or criminal violence is a complex social phenomenon, which is multicausal, and therefore requires an interdisciplinary approach. Not only has to be faced since the penal systems and the police, but the different sectors of the public apparatus. In addition there is also a responsibility on the part of civil society, establish relationships where community and solidarity are part of the social fabric and to improve the quality of life of the Latin American population.

Author: BALLESTEROS REYES ALICIA.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA.

Summary: This Doctoral thesis consists of two distinct parts: The first, concerning the theoretical foundations of the crime, dangerous and criminal recidivism. That is addressed in four chapters. It is a revision of the definition of crime. Dangerousness and criminal recidivism. It also reviewed the main types of offenders according to their criminal career. Finalizing chapter with a historical overview of the biological theories. Sociological and psychological since the beginning of criminology and theories of the crime more contemporary relevance. The second chapter presents a literature review of ínvestigaciones prediction criminal, which takes a look at the need to find the variables involved in the commission of crimes, both violent and non-violent. We present the first studies in the sixties and seventies that were conducted for this purpose, then. Discussing research conducted since the eighties to the present day, focusing on securing the most valid predictor variables and which were built with specific instruments in the measurement of danger and the risk of criminal recidivism. It concludes this second chapter with the problems that must be taken into account when conducting criminal investigations prediction. The third chapter deals with the main instruments specific prediction crime that have been built both domestically and internationally in Europe as American countries. These tools have been used by various authors in different countries showing appropriate indices of reliability and validity in predicting the commission of crimes both violent and non-violent. It also presented specific variables predictive of violence in youth and adolescents. In addition to those that have been constructed for the prediction in the same criminal. Finally in the last chapter of the first part of this thesis DoctoraL presents the Organization of the Penitentiary System Spanish. Reviewing the prison regulations addressing issues related to the central theme dc research. It also revises the role of psychologist penitencíario describing their functions. Finally. Comprehensive statistics are some of the current situation in Spanish prisons. The second part of this thesis describes the specific empirical research. As a starting point, presented in chapter one fifth the oqjetivos of research along with the method used to select the sample dc study. In addition to the assessment instruments and procedures of the investigation. The sixth chapter is the analysis of sociodemographic characteristics and criminal subjects in the study, presenting a Spanish profile socio-demográfico-delictivo of offenders in prison. It also describes the analysis of the relationship between the variables criminal with reincidcncia. In the seventh chapter shows the results obtained with the application of criminal evidence. As well as its favorable adjustment to the Spanish population and psychometric characteristics found. Chapter eight. Focuses on the specific study of pediles more representative of offenders according to a number of groups or conglomerates, which are obtained profiles of offenders Type A and B which correspond to the major and minor offenders dangerousness respectively. Using conglomerates Type A and Type B describes the results thereof in connection 8 with 38e tested. Finally, the last chapter presents the conclusions and subsequent discussion sei'íalando turn, some lines of research necessary inthe future.

Author: BLANCO SÁNCHEZ RAFAELA.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: Introduction Breast cancer is the most common among women in developed countries. In Catalonia is between 27-30% of all tumors feminine. OBJECTIVES sociologically analyze the social construction of a woman and the popular image that breast cancer and the loss of the breast have in relation to the deterioration of relationships. METHOD Research acknowledged. Interviews in depth to women / men with breast cancer. Interviews semistructured doctors. Qualitative analysis of the results. RESULTS are grouped into different sections: body image and sex. Recovery of sexual identity / female. Information received. Mastectomía versus maternidad.. Discovering the disease. Environment and resignations of women. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS was verified assumptions. Women live their body image after mastectomy as a problem that makes them reduce or waive their sexual intercourse and may prevent them from breaking your partner. Loss of female sexual identity. Fear -- whether this increases distrust of the information provided by the medical team that attends. Women of childbearing ----- who have not had children express anxiety about the unknown take power.

Author: LUQUE REINA MARIA EULALIA.
Year: 2006.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: Permits prison Out is one of the few tools to bring the prisoner to his family and the environment to which it returns when it comes out in freedom. These permits arouse alarm because there have been cases, though unique, of serious crimes committed during the enjoyment of permission. At the risk society in which we live, and at a time when the prison population has grown significantly, it is desirable to have an instrument to predict the likelihood that a prisoner, whose permission is appreciating, quebrantarlo or return normally the prison. Through various logistic regression analysis was carried out a study to determine what is the model that better fits the data - that is, more and better explains and predicts the breakdown of exit permit. It has been found that the variables that predict the behavior quebrantador are: the type of crime for which convicted, receiving visits from their families, the severity of disciplinary cases that have been brought in prison and the time of the year that permission. The percentage of correct classification of the model is maintained at 68.1%.