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Sheehan, Brooke. "Prison Nurseries and Social Work Practice." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7745.
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This study sought to examine what gaps existed in practice through the perspectives of correctional social workers in terms of helping incarcerated mother–infant dyads bond. Additionally, it examined whether a prison nursery was viewed as a possible option within a smaller correctional facility. Theories used to guide this study included attachment theory and separation-individuation theory, which align with the research questions that sought to explore gaps in services, supports that could be established, and program feasibility. Action research, using an anonymous online survey, resulted in N = 6 social work participants who worked as prison social workers in the northeast region of the United States. Data were coded using thematic analysis to explore latent and semantic themes. Conclusions drawn from the dataset include the restrictive nature of the prison setting being a barrier to promoting attachment. An increase in parenting classes, substance use programming, and mental health treatment was seen as beneficial for supporting attachment. Promoting childhood normalcy and having access to nature and play things was seen as integral to the development of a prison nursery program. A prison nursery was seen as feasible within a smaller correctional facility in the northeast. Potential positive social change resulting from these findings include development of specific interventions to maintain mother–infant bonding in small departments of correction.
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Powell, Claire. "Mother-infant separation in prison : problematising attachment theory in policy and practice." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2018. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/25950/.
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Women in prison assert that separation from their children is one of the most traumatic aspects of their imprisonment (Corston, 2007; Douglas, Plugge & Fitzpatrick, 2009; IAP, 2017). This thesis considers mother-child separations in English prisons from the perspectives of mothers and prison staff, alongside a critical examination of the use of attachment theory in prison policy and practice. Using a critical realist approach, this mixed-methods study integrates qualitatively analysed semi-structured interviews with a practitioner survey and document analyses. A focus on attachment theory enables a multi-perspective view of an overlooked group of prisoners and proposes relevant policy and practice applications. Study of policy and related literature reveals a consensus that separation from children for imprisoned mothers is traumatic. However, no detail is offered about how mothers should be supported. Interviews with six attachment experts and a survey of 30 family practitioners uncovered a range of critiques of current prison practice supposedly based on attachment theory, in particular the focus on a 'best age' of separation. Interviews with six previously imprisoned mothers highlighted the importance of the wider context, especially external childcare, with regards to their experience of separation. Open prisons were viewed as enabling access to services and the most positive relationships with staff. Interviews with 24 prison staff emphasised the challenges of working with separated mothers, specifically the emotional impact of this type of work, and the difficulties of working with social services. Focusing on the understanding and practice of attachment theory revealed its limitations and problematises its use in prison policy, including critiques of Mother Baby Units. It is proposed that future practice and research should be underpinned by partnership with social work in order to inform best practice, whilst a human rights-based approach with enforceable minimum standards would mitigate some of the harm caused by mother-child separation.
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Harris, Zella Lois. "Filial Therapy with Incarcerated Mothers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277941/.
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This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of filial therapy with incarcerated mothers as a method of increasing empathic behaviors with their children, increasing attitudes of acceptance toward their children, and reducing stress related to parenting. Filial therapy, a method of training parents to respond and interact therapeutically with their children, focuses on enhancing the parent-child relationship. The sample population of 22 volunteer subjects was drawn from a pool of incarcerated mothers in the Denton County Jail who had children between three and ten years of age. The experimental group parents, consisting of 12 incarcerated mothers, received 2-hour filial therapy training sessions biweekly for five weeks and participated in biweekly 30-minute play sessions with one of their children. The control group parents, consisting of 10 incarcerated mothers, received no treatment during the five weeks. The three written self-report instruments completed for pretesting and posttesting purposes by both groups were The Porter Parental Acceptance Scale, The Parenting Stress Index, and The Filial Problem Checklist. The parents were also videotaped in play sessions with their child before and after training as a means of measuring change in empathic behavior. Analysis of Covariance revealed that incarcerated mothers in the experimental group had significant change in 9 of 13 hypotheses, including (a) a significant increase in their level of empathic interactions with their children, (b) a significant increase in their attitude of acceptance toward their children, and (c) a significant reduction in the number of reported problems with their children's behavior. This study supports filial therapy as an effective intervention for enhancing the parent-child relationship with incarcerated mothers and their children. Utilizing instruction and practical application of positive therapeutic methods, filial therapy training empowers parents by increasing their parenting knowledge and skills, and indirectly empowers children who experience the parent-child relationship with an increase in unconditional acceptance and positive regard.
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Woodrow, Jane. "Mothers in prison : the problem of dependent children." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281990.
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Pandey, Madhumita. ""My mother is a goddess", "I am an inmate here" : male prisoners' attitudes towards women and their perceptions of culpability from Delhi Prison." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2018. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/704101/.
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While research on sexual violence in India has considered victim perspectives and policy reforms, offender perspectives remain highly underrepresented in the literature. The aim of this research was to understand the underlying social mechanisms that support and maintain violence against women, and in its extreme form, rape in Indian society. For this purpose, attitudes towards women and perceptions of culpability were examined in a sample of convicted rapists and non-sex offenders from Delhi Prison (N=142). Convicted offenders filled out the short version of Attitudes Towards Women questionnaire (n=122) and also participated in-depth semi-structured interviews (n=20). Comparison of both groups of offenders did not reflect the popular belief that rapists have more traditional and conservative views towards women as no significant differences were found in the way gender was socialized. Home was the main gender socialization site and the mother was central to this process. At the same time, both groups of offenders differed with respect to their self-perceptions of offending. Rapists referred to themselves as "inmates" and non-sex offenders referred to themselves as "offenders". Non-sex offenders accepted responsibility for their actions but attempted to justify their intent whereas rapists denied responsibility and attributed blame to the victim. Rapists also used various identity-management mechanisms to reject the label of 'rapist'. Integration of offenders' gender and crime narratives led to the development of an empirical model linking traditional attitudes towards women and rapists' perceptions of culpability. As one of the first studies examining accounts of convicted rapists in India, this research has implications on policy, social reform and prison research along with contributing to the larger body of literature. The findings are discussed in light of their significance within the unique socio-cultural setup of India along with future recommendations.
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Edwards, Mannheimer Rebecca. "Mammabarnanstalt : Barn i fängelse - bra för barnet, bra för mamman, bra för samhället." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-34754.
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Synen på vad som är bäst för barnet då modern sitter på anstalt har förändrats. Det har visat sig att det bästa för barnet i många fall är att stanna hos sin moder trots fängelsevistelse, snarare än att separeras och placeras i fosterhem vilket tidigare varit den rådande uppfattningen. Mitt förslag är ett ställningstagande i en nu rådande het debatt.
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Gonçalves, Inês Silva Pereira de Almeida. "Materninade em contexto prisional." Master's thesis, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/2758.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicocriminologia apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto UniversitárioA maternidade em contexto prisional é uma área que preocupa cada vez mais investigadores e onde existem poucos estudos disponíveis, que permitam perceber o efeito do contexto do encarceramento nas práticas educativas utilizadas pela mãe. A presente proposta visa efectuar um estudo comparativo de mães-reclusas, mães ex-reclusas e mães que nunca passaram pela experiência da reclusão, com o objectivo de avaliar a influência do contexto prisional. Pretende-se assim estudar as práticas educativas parentais utilizadas no comportamento interactivo das mães com os seus filhos, tendo em conta os factores pessoais que podem interferir nesta relação e a adequação das externalizações realizadas pelas crianças. Utilizarse- á o método de observação directa não-participante e grelhas de observação em que serão registados os comportamentos observados na díade durante a respectiva interacção, em situação de jogo livre. Espera-se que com base nas hipóteses formuladas, os resultados do estudo validem o contexto teórico e permitam um adequado mapeamento das práticas educativas parentais com os estilos parentais associados. Os resultados obtidos poderiam ser utilizados na melhoria e adequação das condições, regras e rotinas de encarceramento das mães e respectivos filhos.
ABSTRACT: Motherhood in the prison context is an area that increasingly worries researchers and where few studies are available, that allow to understand the effect of the context of incarceration in the parenting practices used by the mother. This proposal aims to make a comparative study of prisoners- mothers, ex-prisoners mothers and mothers who never had the experience of imprisonment, with the objective of evaluating the influence of the prison context. We aim to study the parenting practices used in the interactive behavior of mothers and their children, taking into account personal factors that may affect this relationship and appropriateness of the externalizations performed by children. The method of non participant direct observation will be used along with observation grids where the observed behaviors in the dyad during their interaction in free play, will be recorded. It is expected that based on the hypotheses presented, the results of this study will validate the theoretical context and allow a proper mapping of parenting practices associated with parenting styles. The expected results could be used in the improvement and adjustment of conditions, rules and routines of imprisonment of mothers and their children.
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Moore, Alvin R. "An Evaluation of a Program for Incarcerated Mothers: Parenting Training and the Enhancement of Self-Esteem." VCU Scholars Compass, 1995. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1493.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of parenting training on the acquisition of parenting skills and its impact on self-esteem of incarcerated mothers. The program under study is the "Mothers Inside Loving Kids" (M.I.L.K.) program, which is a holistic training/visitation program designed for incarcerated mothers.Study participants included 40 volunteer incarcerated mothers at the Virginia Correctional Center for women. The treatment group consisted of 20 participants who were already involved in the "M.I.L.K." program. The comparison group was made up of 20 mothers who were on the waiting list for the program due to the lack of space. All participants were administered a battery of pre-tests and post-tests. Instruments utilized for the study included the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI), the Nurturing Quiz, the Index of Self Esteem (ISE), and a participant satisfaction survey.Bivariate analyses were used to test the difference between pre-test and post-test mean scores. Both parametric and non-parametric tests were conducted to determine if change scores revealed significant differences. Using independent t-tests to determine if there were significant differences between treatment and comparison groups on change scores, no significant differences were noted. However, in reviewing the direction of change scores for the two groups, the treatment group did show changes in the desired direction in four areas. Specifically, positive directional change occurred on the "Lack of Empathy for the Child" sub-scale, the "Belief in Corporal Punishment" sub-scale, the "Reversing Family Roles" sub-scale, and on the "Nurturing Quiz."Using the Wilcoxon non-parametric test, one measure revealed statistically significant differences between pre-test and post-test scores. Specifically, participants in the treatment group revealed significantly higher scores on the "Nurturing Quiz" at post-testing from pre-testing (z = -2.81, p = .005). This indicates an overall increase in knowledge about positive child management techniques. No significant pre-test to post-test differences were noted in any of the remaining areas under study. However, positive directional change scores were noted in the three different areas of "Inappropriate Expectations of the Child", "Nurturing", and "Self-Esteem."Overall, the findings suggest that the M.I.L.K. Program training positively impacts parenting techniques. Self-esteem appears more difficult to impact.
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Huzejrovic, Belkisa, and Jessica Pilat. "Kriminalvårdens och socialtjänstens arbete och samverkan när barn har en mamma på anstalt. : En kvalitativ studie." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26545.
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Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka hur företrädare inom kriminalvården och socialtjänsten arbetar med barn som har en mamma på anstalt samt vad samverkan mellan myndigheterna har för funktion. Vi har valt att intervjua fyra professionella som arbetar inom kriminalvården och fyra professionella som arbetar inom socialtjänsten. Resultatet visar att myndigheternas olika lagstiftningar, utbildningar, kunskap om varandras verksamheter, uppdrag samt olika synsätt på barnperspektivet försvårar samverkan mellan myndigheterna.The purpose of this study is to examine social services and prison services works with children who have a mother in prison, and how collaboration between the two different authorities function. We chose to interview four professional working in prisons and four professionals in the social services. The thesis results show that there often is a collision between the correctional authority and social service that both have different perspectives when it comes to children whose mothers are in prison. There are several issues to this interaction. We concluded that because of the two different legal authorities, training, knowledge of each other's activities and assignments, there are shortcomings in cooperation between authorities. The professionals are aware of the shortcomings but nobody is doing anything about it.
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Mariano, Grasielly Jeronimo dos Santos. "Amamentação no ambiente prisional: A experiência de detentas em penitenciárias do Estado de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/83/83131/tde-12052017-114233/.
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Este estudo buscou compreender a experiência e os significados da amamentação para mães que amamentam seus filhos durante o cumprimento de pena. A pesquisa foi realizada em seis penitenciárias femininas do estado de São Paulo, de Fevereiro de 2014 à Maio de 2016. Objetivos: Caracterizar a prática de aleitamento materno realizada por mulheres reclusas em estabelecimentos prisionais femininos; Compreender o significado consciente da experiência de amamentar atribuído por mulheres privadas de liberdade e Compreender como os significados atribuídos pelas mulheres presas se manifestam nas ações em relação ao seu processo de amamentar. Metodologia: Essa pesquisa adotou o Interacionismo Simbólico e o modelo \"Pesando Riscos e Benefícios\" como referenciais teóricos e a Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados como referencial metodológico. Primeiramente, para o alcance do primeiro objetivo, foram entrevistadas 85 mulheres, sendo que dessas, 30 participaram da fase de obtenção de dados qualitativos. Resultados: As mulheres tinham entre 18 e 38 anos, a maioria era solteira (48,2%) e 82,3% com mais de um filho. As 82 (100%) crianças que conviviam com suas mães nas penitenciárias tinham entre 0 e 11 meses; 41( 50%) estavam entre 0 e 3 meses e entre essas, 65,9% estavam em aleitamento materno exclusivo; 28 (34,1%) crianças tinham entre três e seis meses de idade, sendo que 10 (35,7%) eram amamentadas exclusivamente. O uso de chupeta foi observado em 39 (47,5%) crianças. Dos dados qualitativos foram identificados três temas: BUSCANDO A REMISSÃO PELA MATERNIDADE, VIVENDO MAIS UMA CONDENAÇÃO e RECONHECENDO QUE HOUVE PERDAS, MAS QUE VALEU A PENA, os quais revelaram que, no conjunto das interações dessa mulher, no contexto prisional, a amamentação desempenha um papel relevante no desenvolvimento do vínculo entre mãe e filho e na promoção do bem estar materno. A nutriz encontra, nessa prática, uma fonte de proteção emocional. Nessa perspectiva, a sua vida deixa de ter a condição penal como foco da existência, projetando na criança o centro de suas atenções e nessa interação, a fonte de uma experiência plena e prazerosa, que possibilita mudanças de visão de mundo. Compreendeu-se que, para a mãe presa, a visão de que o cárcere é um lugar seguro, onde ela pode conviver e cuidar do filho perde-se por completo com a certeza da separação de seu filho. Nesse processo, a mãe vivencia a experiência de construção de vínculo com o seu filho, tendo como horizonte, uma futura ruptura, a certeza da separação que virá com o cumprimento do limite de permanência da criança no presídio. Os resultados desta investigação, fornecem subsídios aos profissionais do sistema penitenciário, para a necessária revisão ou construção de medidas e ambientes com fundamentos, sociais, jurídicos, que promovam não só a oportunidade de guarda do filho da presa, mas a continuidade de vínculos sociais familiares e segurança do exercício da maternidade, intra e extra muros prisional, incrementando as ações de acolhimento sensível, que permita às mulheres presas encontrarem caminhos para também reconstruir as relações com seus meios sociais.This study aimed to understand the experience and meaning of breastfeeding for mothers who breastfed their children, while serving a custodial sentence. The study was conducted in six female penitentiaries in the state of São Paulo, between February 2014 and May 2016. Objectives: To describe the breastfeeding practices of female prisoners; To understand the meaning that breastfeeding had for women deprived of their freedom and to understand how it influenced their behavior. Methodology: This study adopted Symbolic Interactionism and the model \"Risks and Benefits\" as the theoretical underpinnings of the study and Grounded Theory as the methodological framework. To achieve the first objective, we collected quantitative data from 85 women, and of these, 30 participated in the second phase of the study to achieve the other objectives. Results: The women were between 18 and 38 years of age, most were single (48.2%) and 82.3% had more than one child. The 82 (100%) infants living with their mothers in prison were between 1 day and 11 months; 41 (50%) were between one day and 3 months and of these, 65.9% were breastfeeding exclusively; 28 (34.1%) infants were between three and six months, and 10 (35.7%) were exclusively breastfed. Pacifiers were used by 39 (47.5%) of the infants. Three themes were identified in the qualitative data: SEEKING REFUGE THROUGH MOTHERHOOD, SERVING TWO CONCURRENT SENTENCES and COMPROMISED BUT SATISFYING MOTHERING. For woman in the prison context, breastfeeding played a very important role in the development of the bond between mothers and infants and promoted the welfare of the woman. Breastfeeding was a source of emotional protection. From this perspective, the mothers´ lives ceased to have a criminal status as its focus, because the infant became the center of their attention. For them, this interaction became a fulfilling and enjoyable experience that enabled them to change their whole outlook on life to one of positivity. The ultimate separation from their infants made women change their view of prison as not a safe place to live and care for the infant. Their experience of bonding with the infant enabled women to realize that they had a positive future. The results of this study have the potential to be used to inform and ultimately change public policy in relation to how these women are dealt within the penitentiary system. It can increase the sensitivity of health care professions working within the penitentiary system to become much more sensitive to the needs of mothers and their infants thus enabling women to re-evaluate their lives, increase hope for a better future and change direction. The findings strongly support the idea of treating women with dignity and respect in the knowledge that this gives them hope and is the basis for changing their lives for the better.
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MacLean, Donna. "Mother and child live-in programs in Canadian prisons, a policy analysis of program development and implementation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq24197.pdf.
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Lotze, Geraldine M. "The Predictive Relationship of Inhibitory Control, Emotion Regulation, Moral Emotions, and Life Stressors on Behavior Problems in School-Aged Children of Incarcerated Mothers." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1995.
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Gomes, Agnelly Palitot. "O ensino da língua materna sob o prisma da educação linguística." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2016. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/8945.
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This research deals with an investigation through a sociolinguistic interventional proposal which sought to discover how students can appropriate a language education, and thus, instrumentalize them for the use of language, including variants. This research was performed in the Portuguese Language course with students from the 7th grade of a public school in Cabedelo, Paraíba. We emphasize the importance of identifying the adequacy of the language in different social contexts considering the standard norm not as the only variety to be studied in the classroom but as an additional possibility of language use. Therefore, we study the Bortoni-Ricardo Sociolinguistic Theory that brings a teaching proposal focused on Linguistic Education. We still use other authors who also refer to the theme such as Cavalcante (2014), Bagno (2007), Antunes (2007), Faraco (2002) and documents such as PCN (Brazil, 1998). This theory promotes spaces for different discourses that lead the student to expand their language skills through the acquisition of new expressive resources aiming to bring students to a reflection about these linguistic aspects in the educational process, focusing on teaching the mother tongue, considering the language experiences that students bring to the school environment and contributing to improve student interaction with the environment in which it is inserted since such theory considers the relationship between language and society. As a methodological procedure, the study was made feasible through an action research in order to propose direct intervention in the context and in relation to the subjects surveyed. In this sense, five students who participated in elaborated exercises containing the popular registry and the formal use of the language constituted the corpus of the analysis. The results obtained allow us to recognize the linguistic heterogeneity and point to the need to stimulate, in the mother tongue’s classes, a knowledge of the sociolinguistic varieties; As well as for the accomplishment of didactic-pedagogical procedure that contribute to deconstruct the linguistic prejudice still latent in our society.
Esta pesquisa trata de uma investigação por meio de uma proposta interventiva de base sociolinguística, que procurou averiguar como os alunos podem se apropriar de uma educação linguística, e assim, instrumentalizá-los para o uso da língua, inclusive às variantes. Tal pesquisa foi realizada na disciplina Língua Portuguesa, com alunos do 7° ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola pública da cidade de Cabedelo/PB. Ressaltamos a importância de identificar a adequação da linguagem em diferentes contextos sociais, considerando a norma padrão não como a única variedade a ser estudada em sala de aula, mas como uma possibilidade a mais de uso da língua. Para tanto, pautamos o estudo na Teoria Sociolinguística de Bortoni-Ricardo, que traz uma proposta de ensino voltada à Educação Linguística. Ainda nos valemos de outros autores que também fazem referência ao tema, a exemplo de Cavalcante (2014), Bagno (2007), Antunes (2007), Faraco (2002), e de documentos como os PCN (Brasil,1998). A referida teoria promove espaços para diferentes discursos, levando o aluno a expandir suas competências linguísticas por meio da aquisição de novos recursos expressivos procurando levar alunos a uma reflexão acerca desses aspectos linguísticos no processo educacional, com foco voltado para o ensino da língua materna, considerando as experiências linguísticas que os alunos trazem para o ambiente escolar; contribuindo, assim, para melhorar a interação do aluno com o meio em que está inserido, uma vez que tal teoria considera a relação entre língua e sociedade. Como procedimento metodológico, o estudo foi viabilizado por meio de uma pesquisa-ação em razão de propor intervenção direta no contexto e em relação aos sujeitos pesquisados. Nesse sentido, o corpus de análise foi constituído por 05 alunos que participaram de exercícios elaborados, contendo o registro popular e o uso formal da língua. Os resultados obtidos nos permitem o reconhecimento da heterogeneidade linguística e apontam para a necessidade de estimular, nas aulas de língua materna, um conhecimento das variedades sociolinguísticas; bem como para realização de procedimento didático-pedagógico que contribuam para desconstruir o preconceito linguístico ainda latente em nossa sociedade.
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Pereira, Tatiane Guimarães. "Atitudes e intervenções de profissionais que atuam junto a mulheres grávidas ou com bebês em contexto prisional." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/6/6136/tde-30042015-115515/.
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Introdução: A relação mãe e bebê, movida por cuidados repetitivos providos de afeto, deve ser disponibilizada ao bebê para sua constituição como sujeito psíquico e social. Para a parceria se efetivar, a díade necessita de um ambiente favorável representado por uma rede de cuidados potente e sustentadora. A maternidade, em contexto prisional, assume especial complexidade pela inserção e efeitos do aprisionamento. Tal efeito se estende aos profissionais que atuam em meio a essas repercussões que moldam suas atitudes no dispositivo prisional. Objetivo: Identificar atitudes e intervenções de profissionais que trabalham em contexto prisional em relação às gestantes e mães com bebês presas. Método: Foi aplicado um questionário destinado a caracterizar o perfil dos participantes e entrevista semidirigida com oito profissionais com atuação voltada às grávidas e às mães com bebês no contexto prisional escolhidos a partir da técnica bola de neve. Buscou-se contemplar os olhares de várias esferas: Defensoria Pública do Estado de São Paulo, Pastoral Carcerária, Departamento Penitenciário Nacional (DEPEN) e ex-servidores das unidades materno-infantis. Os discursos construídos foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo na modalidade temática. Utilizaram-se dois referenciais teóricos: a dimensão psíquica de Winnicott e a dimensão social de Krech. Resultados: Os profissionais revelam potências e impotências que, ao serem compartilhadas de forma coletiva, mostram-se edificadoras da atuação interdisciplinar. Tal atuação revela as ideias defendidas pelas áreas em que trabalham, como as esferas sociais, jurídicas e religiosas movidas por ideais pautados nos direitos humanos e a segurança próxima da lógica da punição. Sobre a maternidade na prisão, o imaginário coletivo que atribui à mãe um lugar social quase sagrado também ocorre atrás das grades. A função materna, permeada pela vitalidade, é inserida paradoxalmente em situação de mortificação subjetiva. Essa complexidade traz aos profissionais profunda lamentação e esperança de transformação da presa a partir da maternidade. Também há simbolizações destrutivas em relação ao bebê, visto como herdeiro da biografia transgressora da mãe. Para atuação nessa situação, há a necessidade de apoio aos profissionais nos intra e extramuros, como a sustentação familiar, seus valores, religiosidade, amparo teórico e atuação multiprofissional. Assim, desejam transformações que oxigenem e aliviem o ar aprisionado por tanta mortificação que eles e os presos respiram e pulsam do mesmo cotidiano com espaços de capacitação e reflexão. Conclusão: Movimentos pendulares de potência e impotência, segregação e criatividade, modelam as atitudes dos profissionais aprisionados na lógica institucional. Muitas vezes tal lógica impede a atuação espontânea como também revela espaços de novas reconfigurações, na tentativa de levar vivacidade à desesperança impregnada nas paredes e atitudes de alguns presos e profissionais que ali habitam.Introduction: The mother-child relationship, driven by repetitive provided care affection, should be available to the baby for its establishment as psychological and social subject. For the partnership goes through, the dyad needs a favorable environment represented by a network of powerful and supportive care. The motherhood, in the prison context, is particularly complex by the insertion and effects of imprisonment. This effect extends to professionals in the midst of these repercussions that shape the prison device. Objective: To identify attitudes and interventions of professionals working in the prison context in relation to pregnant women and mothers arrested with babies. Method: A questionnaire aimed to characterize the profile of participants and semistructured interviews with eight professionals with performance directed to pregnant women and mothers with their babies in the prison setting chosen from the technique \"snowball\". We tried to cover the eyes of various spheres: Public Defenders Office for the State of São Paulo, Prison Ministry, National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN) and former employees of the mother and child units. The speeches built were subjected to content analysis in the thematic mode. Two theoretical frameworks were used: the psychic dimension by Winnicott and the social dimension by Krech. Results: The professionals show power and impotence that, when shared collectively, are shown builders of the interdisciplinary approach. This action reveals the ideas in the areas in which they work, such as social, legal and religious spheres driven by ideals guided on human rights and the next logical security of the punishment. About motherhood in prison, the collective picture that gives the mother an almost sacred place in society also occurs behind bars. The maternal function, permeated with vitality, is inserted paradoxically in a situation of subjective mortification. This complexity brings to deep lamentation in the professionals and hope to transform the inmate from motherhood. There are also destructive symbolization in relation to the baby, seen as heir to the transgressive biography of the mother. To act in this situation, there is a need to support professionals in the intra and extramural, such as family support, their values, religiosity, theoretical support and multidisciplinary expertise. So wish transformations oxigenem and relieve the trapped air by so much mortification that they and the prisoners breathe and pulsate the same everyday with spaces of training and reflection. Conclusion: Commuting power and impotence, segregation and creativity, shape the attitudes of professionals imprisoned in the institutional logic. Often such logic prevents spontaneous action but also shows areas of new reconfigurations in an attempt to bring liveliness to hopelessness impregnated the walls and attitudes of some prisoners and professionals who live there.
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Pullukattu, Liz. "Prison City: redesigning Pollsmoor Prison." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28134.
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Rehabilitating the Prison System: The prison system in South Africa is a harsh and ineffective system that emphasises the need to punish rather than rehabilitate and reintegrate the incarcerated back into society. Although a lot of prisons in South Africa host a number of workshops and activities which have been introduced to inmates for such purposes- the recidivism rates of offenders, that have ended up in the penal system, has failed to drop or decline. A Process of deconstruction and synthesis: The method of this study is to analyse and deconstruct existing prison or correctional/ penitentiary/ rehabilitation institute landscapes into potential design components and then synthesise these into environments that can promote the rehabilitation of prisoners. The projects analysed are of international and South African origin, and are of prisons or mental and other high-security institutions. The analysed projects will be looked at as potential interventions that can be synthesised within the landscapes (rather, lack of landscapes) of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Looking into redesigning Pollsmoor Prisona prison where conditions do not support opportunities for rehabilitation and integration and where bland, cold concrete and brick facades enclose inmates for mostly 23-hours a day.
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Lynch, Julianne. "Mother, Mother (a novel)." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282150586.
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Jónsdóttir, Lilja. "The good, the bad and the criminal, a study of mothers in prisons." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22086.pdf.
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Jonsdottir, Lilja Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "The "Good", the "Bad" and the "Criminal"; a study of mothers in prisons." Ottawa, 1997.
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Kenderian, Nanor. "Prison to prison : the prison novels of Hagop Oshagan and Armenian penological literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2352bc99-62be-4d32-8d44-f0453fb9ea48.
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The prison novels (Haji Murat, Haji Abdullah and Süleyman Effendi) of Western Armenian writer Hagop Oshagan (1883-1948) articulate two unprecedented sociocultural critiques of Armenian experience. Like much of Oshagan's works, these novels, comprising the cycle Haryur Mék Tarvan [101 Years' Imprisonment] (1933), have scarcely been studied. The task of this study is to reveal the nature of Oshagan's critique, and to revise two chief Armenian literary critical trends: that of either de-contextualizing or instrumentalizing these novels' nationalist preoccupations; that is, either overlooking their contextual relevance as responses to contemporaneous nationalist dogmas, or distorting them to seem ideologically sympathetic. Oshagan's novels rather deploy the prison trope to foreground and question the aesthetic and ideological influence of late 19th century Armenian nationalist-revolutionary movements. They moreover undermine the persisting paradigm borne of nationalist-revolutionary rhetoric that collectively represents Armenians and Turks as victims and victimizers respectively. The present study reads Oshagan in the wider context of Armenian penological literature, and locates his engagement with nationalist-revolutionary ideology as an overtly critical, rather than sympathetic project. It provides an unprecedented appraisal of such political movements' primarily negative impact upon late 19th and early 20th century Western Armenian literature, a tradition that has presented 'Armenianness' through an almost exclusive narrative of subjection. This literary historical background allows Oshagan's singularity to appear. He is the first to recognize the prison trope as the preferred nationalist-revolutionary literary convention, a trope he then reconfigures in order to formulate an alternative, a literary mode of nationalism - namely, mystic nationalism - informed by his readings of Dostoevsky's novels. Oshagan imagines and articulates anew the Armenian-Turk relationship in terms that complicate, subvert and transcend the normative master/slave model instituted by nationalist-revolutionary rhetoric. In the process, he elaborates a conception of these movements as inadvertently complicit in the discursive - and, ultimately, also political - (self)-subjection of Armenians culminating as experiences of absolute subjection. After Oshagan, this study constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of literary renderings of both Armenian-Turk relations and nationalist-revolutionary ideology.
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Salinas, Gevana Lynn. "A preliminary analysis : prison models and prison management models and the Texas Prison System /." View online, 2009. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/302.
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Palm, Noelle, and Kaylee Falcon. "Camp Suzanne: A Qualitative Case Study on Attachment Theory and Longevity Considerations for an Art Therapeutic Program for Incarcerated Mothers and their Children." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/492.
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A qualitative study of the experiences and observations of 4 art therapists and 2 program directors who facilitated Camp Suzanne, a week-long art-based therapeutic program for incarcerated mothers and their children in a federal prison in California. Research on psychotherapy, art therapy, and family therapy in prison environments, with a focus on parent-child dyads, Attachment Theory, and various techniques for creating sustainable therapy with separated family units, including tele-mental health and evidence-based military protocols, informed the interviews. The research participants were interviewed individually and created art regarding the subjects of Attachment Theory with incarcerated-mother-child dyads and longevity considerations for the program. Emergent themes in the data included the impact of art-making on attachment and a variety of observable attachment styles, as well as obstacles to both attachment and longevity of Camp Suzanne. Some of the obstacles addressed include systemic challenges, continuity of care, location concerns, external support (for facilitators and for incarcerated-mother-child dyads), as well as preparatory support (psychoeducation). Various implications of these obstacles are discussed.
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De, Viggiani Nicholas P. A. "(Un)healthy prison masculinities : theorising men's health in prison." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/2f35babf-d5d5-407b-bfb7-c02a50cae8e8.
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This thesis explores the interconnections between masculinity, health and prison. It contests reductionist, individualist and biomedical approaches to health care management in prisons and challenges gender-blindness within criminology and social science where masculinities have been overlooked as key factors of prison culture and organisation. The research set out to explore how masculinities manifest at institutional, social and cultural levels in prison as key determinants of health. The study was conducted in an enhanced wing of an adult male training prison in Southern England. A reflexive ethnographic approach was used, comprising sustained (non-participant)observation, focus group interviewing, and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with thirty-five inmates and four prison officers. The research revealed how prison masculinities were produced and performed by inmates and prison staff, and through the discourses and practices of the prison regime. They were manifested at social and organisational levels as key determinants of health as 'deprivations' associated with imprisonment and as 'importation factors' reflecting inmates pre-prison health status. Values of the institution and those of inmates and staff combined to create a pervasively 'masculine' atmosphere and culture, which adversely affected the physical and mental health of many prisoners. This thesis recommends that health policy for prisons is developed and organised with consideration to issues of gender and power. The masculine ideology that underpinned the organisational and social fabric of the prison in this study was evident in the attitudes and behaviours of inmates and staff and in the 'progressive regime' advocated by the Prison Service. This research shows that a broad, holistic and 'gendered' view of prison health can provide alternative insight into men's health in prisons, and therefore offer a positive and productive way forward for future prison health policy, in line with the World Health Organisation's Healthy Prisons philosophy.
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Brown, Amy S. "Rehabilitation in Prison: An Examination of Prison Animal Programs." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1452118256.
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Flores, Nelia Maria Portugal. "UM ABRAÇO SEM GRADES: DOCUMENTÁRIO SOBRE A MATERNIDADE NO SISTEMA PRISIONAL." Centro Universitário Franciscano, 2018. http://www.tede.universidadefranciscana.edu.br:8080/handle/UFN-BDTD/652.
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Introduction: The number of children and adolescents with mothers in prison is increasing and has been demanding debates among researchers, public representatives, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and society in general, with a view to planning actions to minimize the negative impacts of the prison system, on the health and psychological development of the child / adolescent. The overall objective: of the study was to construct a video technology material to present the experience of motherhood to women prisoners in a closed regime and, as a result, to promote the debate about the reality of the mother-child relationship in the prison context. Method: the research had an exploratory and transversal design with a qualitative approach. Fifteen women were arrested in a closed regime. There were 13 individual semi-structured interviews and 3 focus groups. Data collection took place in a regional mixed prison in the period between April and July 2017. The data were transcribed and submitted to the content analysis proposed by Bardin. For the production of the documentary, the images were collected during an action carried out by Projeto Inspira, in its 5th edition. This action occurred on November 10, 2017 with 12 distressed mothers of the Regional Prison of Santa Maria, four of them recorded testimonials for the documentary. They were encouraged to talk about their experience from the following question: What is the experience of being a parent of children in the childhood / adolescence phase and being stuck? In addition to the inmates participated in the documentary: a caregiver grandmother and professionals involved in the issue. After being videotaped, the content was edited through the process of visualization and decupagem. Results: the results of this research reveal that mothers' experiences are permeated by feelings of their children's homesickness, blame for being wrong, shame before them for the prison situation. The mothers of this study were aware of the damage caused by the crime and, consequently, their arrest in the children's lives. It was found that maternity in the prison system is also hampered by the precariousness of the interpersonal relationships established during the execution of the sentence. The final product: of this study is the production of a documentary titled: A hug without grids: real stories of women prisoners and their children. Endings considerations: mothers in prison are deprived and fragile, deprived of power, voice and self-esteem to exercise parenthood. It adds up the lack of coexistence and the mother-child bond is threatened. In this way, improvements in the prison environment are suggested that allow for the assiduity and the quality of the interaction during the visits and, with this, the maintenance and strengthening of the mother-child bond, considering the evidence of a scenario of double helplessness, in which mothers and children are deprived of coexistence and reciprocal affection.
Introdução: O número de crianças e adolescentes com mães presas é crescente e vem demandando debates entre pesquisadores, representantes públicos, organizações não governamentais (ONGs) e a sociedade em geral, com vistas ao planejamento de ações destinados a minimizar os impactos negativos do sistema prisional, na saúde e no desenvolvimento psicológico da criança/adolescente. O objetivo geral: do estudo foi construir um material tecnológico em vídeo sobre a vivência da maternidade para mulheres presas em regime fechado. Método: a pesquisa teve um delineamento exploratório e transversal com abordagem qualitativa. Participaram 15 mulheres presas em regime fechado. Foram realizadas 13 entrevistas semiestruturadas individuais e 3 grupos focais. A coleta de dados ocorreu em um presídio misto regional no período entre abril e julho de 2017. Os dados foram transcritos e submetidos à análise de conteúdo proposta por Bardin. Para a produção do documentário, as imagens foram coletadas durante uma ação realizada pelo Projeto Inspira, em sua 5ª edição. A referida ação ocorreu no dia 10 de novembro de 2017 com 12 mães apenadas do Presídio Regional de Santa Maria, 4 delas gravaram depoimentos para o documentário. Elas foram estimuladas a falar sobre sua experiência a partir da seguinte questão: Como é a experiência de ser mãe de filhos na fase da infância/adolescência e estar presa? Além das detentas, participaram do documentário: uma avó cuidadora e profissionais envolvidos na temática. Depois de gravado em vídeo, o conteúdo foi editado através do processo de visionagem e decupagem. Resultados: os resultados desta pesquisa revelam que as vivências das mães são permeadas por sentimentos de saudades dos filhos, culpa por terem errado, vergonha diante deles pela situação prisional. As mães deste estudo mostraram ter consciência sobre os danos causados pelo crime e, consequentemente, pela prisão delas na vida dos filhos. Constatou-se que a maternidade no sistema prisional é dificultada, também, pela precariedade das relações interpessoais estabelecidas durante o cumprimento da pena. O produto final: deste estudo foi a produção de um documentário intitulado: Um abraço sem grades: histórias reais de mulheres presas e seus filhos. Considerações finais: as mães presas encontram-se carentes e fragilizadas, desprovidas de poder, voz e autoestima para exercer a parentalidade. Soma-se a falta de convivência e o vínculo mãe-filho(a) fica ameaçado. Assim sugere-se melhorias no ambiente prisional que propicie a assiduidade e a qualidade da interação durante as visitas e, com isso, a manutenção e o fortalecimento do vínculo mãe-filhos, considerando a evidência de um cenário de duplo desamparo, no qual mães e filhos estão privados de convivência e afeto recíproco.
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Roux, Daniël. "Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8099.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-290).This thesis investigates a range of South African autobiographical accounts of imprisonment, most of them by political prisoners under apartheid. Its principal focus is on the ways in which the prison as physical and ideological space intersects with a conscious literary construction of identity. The argument is that in these accounts, the prison features as both object and subject: it appears as one of the objects of description, a referent among others in a structured succession of events, but in fact it also serves as the very frame that enables and structures the consciousness that speaks about - and from within - the prison. In other words, the prison is one of the important coercive instruments that governed the forms of consciousness, literary and otherwise, that emerged in South Africa under apartheid. A broader topic engaged by this discussion is therefore also the role played by materially based disciplinary structures in the emergence of autobiographical literary forms.
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陳學武 and Hok-mo Chan. "Medium security prison." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982773.
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Chan, Hok-mo. "Medium security prison." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2595149x.
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Intelisano, Sabrina. "Happiness in prison." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7094/.
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In this thesis I am going to explore the relationship between happiness and imprisonment. I will discuss three theories of happiness - hedonism, life satisfaction theories and emotional states theories. I will argue that the main problem of these theories is that they take happiness to consist only of psychological states. Because of this, I will turn my attention towards those theories that evaluate happiness in terms of how well life is going for the person who is living it. I will argue that my Aristotelian account is the most plausible way to understand the relationship between happiness and imprisonment. This is because it takes into account both the external circumstances and the psychological and emotional life of pnsoners. Through this thesis, I will show that my account of happiness in prison accomplishes three tasks: i) it solves the problems encountered by the other theories of happiness in the evaluation of prisoners' happiness, ii) it does not suffer from two of the main objections to the other objectivist theories of happiness, and iii) it can help us to investigate the happiness of prisoners empirically more accurately.
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Buchanan, Emily. "A magic prison." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7767.
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Includes abstract.|Includes bibliographical references.When Megan’s aged and addled father goes missing in Lahaina, Maui, where he has been living most of his adult life, she must decide whether and how she should help to find him. As a child, she knew him only through their two weeks together each December; as a young adult, she had to deal with the consequences of his alcoholism and her stepsister’s accusation that he molested her. Now Megan is fortyone, married to Steven and the mother of a young daughter, Jess; but she is her father’s only child and her stepmother needs her help. As Megan returns to Maui she recalls her Christmases with her father. Both good and bad memories are evoked as she searches for him: from the delights of snorkelling, the horrors of a cock fight, and the stories of the locals, to the beauty of the tropical landscape. We follow her as she visits the once-isolated community of Hansen’s disease sufferers at Kalaupapa, on Molokai; tracks down her stepsister where she is working at the landmark Pioneer Inn, and walks through the historical sites of ancient Lahaina, once the home of Hawaiian royalty. We discover what it is like to work at a commercial luau and how she became a chef on Kauai.
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Ahmad, Suhail. "Fairness in prison." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252190.
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Worthington, Rachel. "Prison officers on the prison stage : an exploration of the psychological processes of prison officers in the workplace." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443303.
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Toman, Elisa L. "Female Incarceration and Prison Social Order: An Examination of Gender Differences in Prison Misconduct and In-Prison Punishments." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6966.
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The dramatic increase in the U.S. prison population has renewed scholarly interest in the prison experience. Researchers have built upon and extended classic theories of inmate behavior to better understand the mechanisms that lead to inmate violence and misbehavior. Yet, scholars still consider what happens to inmates inside of prison a “black box,” due to limited systematic assessments of the prison experience. This body of scholarship is also limited by its narrow focus on males, as theories of inmate behavior have been developed around male experiences and, in turn, ignore the possibility that gender may influence prison life. Feminist theory suggests that assessments of the prison experience necessitate a focus beyond a “gendered” analysis, to one that simultaneously takes in to account race and ethnicity. Theory indicates that the intersection of gender, race, and ethnicity influence the prison experience and the way in which prison staff react to behaviors of different inmate groups.
Accordingly, the goal of this dissertation is to address these research gaps and to systematically examine female inmate behavior and official reactions to behavior. Specifically, this dissertation examines three domains of the prison experience. First, it examines gender and race/ethnicity-based variation in the trends and predictors of formal in-prison misconduct. Second, the dissertation explores gender and racial/ethnic differences in how prisons sanction inmate misconduct and focuses specifically on the use of disciplinary confinement, losses of gain time, and assignment to extra work duty. Third, the dissertation assesses how in-prison punishments influence future in-prison misconduct and examines whether there is gender and racial/ethnic variation in those effects.
Towards this goal, this dissertation uses longitudinal data that come from the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC), and include all inmates that entered Florida prisons between 2005 and 2011. The data are especially useful in the assessment of the female prison experience, because they include a large enough sample of female inmates of Black, White, and Hispanic background to allow for systematic empirical assessments, which are typically rare in the study of this type of population. This dissertation uses a number of different analytic techniques, including bivariate comparisons, life table analyses, multilevel logistic regression models, negative binomial regression, and multilevel survival analyses.
The dissertation’s analyses identify several critical results that advance prison research, theory, and policy. First, the findings highlight that there are notable gender and racial/ethnic differences in official misconduct, which point to the possibility of behavioral differences or differential rule enforcement, or perhaps both. At the same time, this dissertation shows that prior incarceration and age are the strongest predictors of misconduct, violence, and order violations for Black, White, and Hispanic males and females. Second, this dissertation identifies disciplinary confinement as the most frequently used in-prison sanction across male and female inmates incarcerated in Florida prisons. Third, empirical assessments showed little to no deterrent effect of harsher in-prison punishments (e.g., disciplinary confinement). More broadly, the findings underscore a need for more nuanced assessments of the female prison experience, and one that can account better for officer decision making patterns. The dissertation concludes with an overview of the findings, and a discussion of theory, research, and policy implications.
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Bryans, Shane Clive. "Prison governance : an exploration of the changing role and duties of the Prison Governor in HM Prison Service." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2418/.
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Interviews with 42 Prison Governors, an analysis of job descriptions from 98 Governors, and original material reveal that their role and duties have changed in recent years. The introduction of New Public Management (NPM) into the Prison Service has made Governors far more accountable for the operation of their prisons. They are now expected to achieve performance targets, deliver efficiency savings, and to compete with other prisons. Line management of Governors has become robust. More is now delegated to Governors, but at the same time scope for local discretion has diminished. The administrative burden on Governors has increased significantly. Changes in the environment in which Governors operate have also had an impact on their work. In particular, recent years have seen a more punitive approach by the media, politicians, public and judiciary, and an increase in the ability and willingness of prisoners (and pressure groups) to challenge a Governor's decision. Governors today are at the same time: general managers (managing budgets and people, undertaking strategic planning, auditing and monitoring); leaders (acting as a figurehead, representing their establishment, providing vision and direction); operational commanders (dealing with incidents); and prison specialists (maintaining security, achieving order through effective control, and providing positive regimes). A key aspect of Governors' work has however remained unchanged over the years. This sui generis element involves balancing and regulating their prisons by exercising power, authority, influence and discretion in a way that protects individuals and mitigates the negative aspects of a closed institution. Governors must craft prison culture, blend the various approaches to maintaining order, and demonstrate clear moral and ethical standards. Governors still require 'grounded professionalism'. They manage their institutions based on their accumulated knowledge, practical experience and personal judgment. In doing so, they seek to ensure that prisoners are treated in a decent and humane way, their institutions are safe and clean, and opportunities exist for rehabilitation.
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Stebbins, Glenn Thurston. "CLASSIFICATION OF PRISON INMATES ACCORDING TO PRISON RULES AND REGULATIONS (ENVIRONMENT)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291276.
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Stucki, Lindsay. "Prison Landscapes: An Exploration of Therapeutic Landscapes in Women’s Prison Facilities." Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38545.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Brent C. Chamberlain
In the United States there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in prisons and jails, making the U.S. incarcerated population the largest in the world (Kaeble and Glaze, 2016; Lindemuth, 2014). With the expansion of the prison population, women now comprise a larger portion than ever before (FBJS, 2010). There are approximately 100,000 women incarcerated in US federal and state prisons (FBJS, 2015). Many facilities do not contain adequate programs to help rehabilitate these women (Young, 2000). Prisons are often termed “correctional facilities”, but struggle to promote positive behavior and well-being (Pacholke, 2014; Haney, 2001; SuedFeld, 1980). When the prison environment is examined, it is often found that prisons are bleak, unwelcoming institutions (Lindemuth, 2014). This prompts the question: How can landscape architects design prison environments that improve psychological health and promote positive behavior? Evidence suggests that exposure to nature improves psychological health and promotes positive behavior (Moore, 1981; Ulrich, 1984, Ulrich, 1991, Hartig, 1991). Many studies report on the effects of therapeutic landscapes in healthcare settings, (e.g. Ulrich, 1999; Cooper Marcus & Barnes, 1995, 1999; Mitrione and Larson, 2007), however, limited literature exists on therapeutic landscapes within the prison context. The focus of this report is to explore how landscapes within women’s prison facilities can be designed to reduce stress and promote positive behavior.
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Gadot, Alexandre. "La prison comme sanction pénale : recherche sur le droit de la prison et le droit en prison en France." Paris 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA020045.
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La prison n'a pas toujours été conçue comme une sanction afflictive. Elle est apparue comme telle dans le cadre du mouvement philosophique moderne et, en particulier, de l'utilitarisme. La nouvelle conception est entrée dans la pratique à partir de la Révolution. Si la prison est devenue la peine de droit commun de la justice pénale, c'est avant tout pour écarter les supplices. Conçues comme une peine moins dure que les châtiments corporels de l'Ancien régime, elle a ensuite, elle-même, été jugée trop sévère dans certaines de ses modalités, le second Xxe siècle a-t-il vu l'aspect de resocialisation de l'infracteur prendre la priorité dans sa définition. La prison moderne visé met en œuvre des moyens humains (l'administration pénitentiaire) et matériels (le parc carcéral) dont la quantité et la qualité influent sur les conditions de vie des détenus et donc sur la signification de la sanction pénale. Depuis la réforme Amor, la peine privative de liberté a pour but essentiel l'amendement et le reclassement social du condamné. De plus, le traitement infligé au prisonnier doit être humain et tendre principalement à l'amélioration de son instruction. La sanction pénale vise l'utilité de la société et du prionnier, mais ne cherche pas à être une rétribution del'acte. Pour permettre la resocialisation des détenues, la prison doit respecter leur humanité. Dans ce contexte, les peines alternatives à la prison sont sans doute justifiées dans la pratique, mais il ne faut pas négliger le fait qu'elles portent atteinte à la cohérence du système pénal.
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Garrett, Jeanine Cesaro. "Mother load." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1239896954/.
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Swartzel, Gray. "mother / me." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2018. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/137.
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mother / me is a visual exploration and analysis of the biological and constructed maternal realms of artist Gray Swartzel’s life. Orienting and navigating childhood influences, Swartzel explains his desire to use Craigslist to seek out surrogates, or mother figures. Interrogating his queer body within the psychological space between himself and his biological and surrogate mothers, he challenges and interrogates conceptions of the nuclear family, critiquing heteronormative assumptions of family. Swartzel tasks himself as an agent to inspect family as a social construct within a larger Lacanian orientation, while seeking out the objet petit a, or cause of desire in such relationships. He details the influences of early twentieth century glamour photography and maternal theory and outlines how they manifest in performances of the self. mother / me is an experiment to investigate the queer relationship between camp and the twenty-first century dandy through the collaboration of a mother and a child to construct visual images.
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Park, Angela. "Mobile Mother." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10752199.
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At any given time, approximately 4% of women in the United States are pregnant. Planned or unplanned, pregnancy changes the lives, mentalities, and bodies of women. Health and care are not only limited to the mother, but now extends out to the child as well. Pregnant women and their children require specialized care before and after the birth but sometimes these services can be difficult to locate, attend, and maintain. Mobile Mother aims to provide expecting mothers with top prenatal and postnatal services conveniently by bringing the clinic to them. The mission is to provide accessible, valuable, and quality care to pregnant women who have limited transportation, access to care, scheduling and time, or simply choose to not attend traditional maternity clinics in hospitals. Mobile Mother's goal is to deliver the best, convenient maternity care to expecting mothers in the Greater Los Angeles area. This proposal will provide detailed insight on how Mobile Mother aims to achieve these goals.
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Pfaff-Shalmiyev, Sophia. "] To Mother." PDXScholar, 2015. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2535.
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Four weeks before the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 an eleven-year-old flees the Soviet Union with her young father. As political refugee determined to eventually settle in the United States they hastily abandon the girl's estranged alcoholic mother, future stepmother, their friends and relatives, their collection of books and all but a handful of family photographs. She eventually attempts to seek out and recover the people, ideas and objects lost on that voyage to America by going back to a much changed Russia and stitching together the scattered and forgotten pieces in between her old and new homes through dream-like snapshots.
Two decades after her emigration the author examines the concept of bad luck in one's travels, the significance of the number four, ambivalent attachments, learning to mother from a place of abandonment, the familial legacy of escape and the pursuit of wholeness within inconsolable loss. The un-tellability of the story is considered through the lens of Sappho, Bernadette Mayer, Yoko Ono, Roland Barthes, Doris Lessing, Nico and many other surrogate mothers and fathers brought together as a chorus in a multi-vocal, lyric approach.
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Lee, Fiona Ruth Grace. "Learning to be a mother, to be a mother learning, a mother learning to be." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28065.
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Adult learning is “a multidimensional phenomenon ... that takes place in various contexts”, including those that are concurrently individual, familial, and societal (Merriam 2008, p. 97). Through a process that is located, dynamic, informal and formal, and occurs in both public and private contexts, this thesis employs autobiographical bricolage to articulate my mother learning in a rich, layered exploration and expression of insights.
Over the course of my writings, I explored my identity, role, and practices within the contexts of family relationships, communities of peers and mentors, and the wider North American context. Through this method, I articulate the spectrum of mental, emotional, psychological, relational, spiritual, embodied, and artistic learning in which I have been engaged, while also locating my self in the context of the broader educational and interdisciplinary discussions on mothering and learning.
This thesis gives shape to my mother learning journey: a process of identification and reflection which grants me insight into other parents’ ways of “knowing, learning, and being” and has fostered in me the desire to facilitate and provide compassionate support for other parent learners (Grumet 1988, p. 149; Holman-Jones 2008, p. 209; Geertz 2003, p. 149). This desire to develop “a shared consciousness” is rooted in a desire to foster the “surprising insights” that Davis, et al. (2000) claim will inspire learners to continue seeking growth and challenge (Clarke & Collins 2007, p. 167; p. 148).
Self-exploration informs my role as a parent educator seeking to enrich the mutual learning of parent-learners and educators. Through clarification of the mother learning of my predecessors and by offering new “methods and meaning”, I hope to incite change through a process which layers cycles of reflection and re-imagining (Byrne-Armstrong 2001, p. 72; Grumet 1988, p. 90, 93, 19; Holman-Jones 2003, p. 111).
My own transformation from an isolated, fearful, and discouraged woman who felt constrained by her mother role, to that of a layered, humbled, questioning, and resourceful mother, daughter, wife, and educator define the borders of this thesis, but not of my learning journey as a mother and parent educator. This journey continues still now.
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Lai, Siu-yu Kriss, and 黎兆宇. "Stress among prison officers: a replication study in a Hong Kong prison." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31978952.
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Lai, Siu-yu Kriss. "Stress among prison officers : a replication study in a Hong Kong prison /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22114968.
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Meyer, Doreen M. (Doreen Mae) Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "A prison of their own; the contradictions behind Canada's prison for women." Ottawa, 1992.
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Tait, Sarah Louise. "Prison officer care for prisoners in one men's and one women's prison." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612320.
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Ireland, Carol A. "Adapting to prison life." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2001. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/6554/.
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This thesis examines longitudinally how young offenders cope with prison life, in particular the relationship between early coping styles and later levels of psychological health' and homesickness. The research was conducted in two parts. The first was a preliminary study to modify a homesickness questionnaire (Archer et al, 1998) for use within a prison population. The modified questionnaire (HQ-P) demonstrated good reliability. The second part consisted of the longitudinal study. This comprised three phases where individuals were assessed within two weeks of arriving into the prison system (phase one, N = 261), six weeks later (phase two, N = 133) and four to six months after phase one (phase three, N = 55). At each phase, individuals were asked to complete a coping styles questionnaire, psychological health and homesickness measures. A small number of the sample at phase one also took part in a semi-structured interview. This was to explore qualitatively their methods of coping, management of relationships and levels of support experienced within the first two weeks of arrival into the prison system. The results demonstrated that the use of emotional and avoidance coping within two weeks of arrival into prison was related to better levels of psychological health and lower levels of homesickness some six weeks and four to six months later. Individuals also demonstrated preferences for particular coping strategies that remained consistent across each phase. There are many implications of these findings. The first of these is the demonstration that levels of homesickness remain consistently high as time continues in prison. The study also reflects the importance of not labelling coping strategies as universally effective or ineffective, and allowing a more realistic exploration of their significance as a result. The effective early use of avoidance and emotional coping upon later levels of psychological health and homesickness would contrast against coping theory, that has previously regarded emotional and avoidance coping as hindering effective management of the stressor (Zeinder and Endler, 1996 and Menaghan, 1982). ___________________ 'Psychological health refers to symptoms expressed in the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (Crown and Crisp, 1966). These include depression, free-floating anxiety, obsessional and hysteric symptoms, also somatic symptoms which has a physical base. When discussing the findings throughout this thesis, references to psychological health are a combination of the above symptoms.
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Semple, Janet Elisabeth. "Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302135.
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Placer, Meredith Anne. "Spiritual transformation in prison." Winston-Salem, NC : Wake Forest University, 2009. http://dspace.zsr.wfu.edu/jspui/handle/10339/42655.
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Bourgoin, Nicolas. "Le Suicide en prison." Paris, EHESS, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993EHES0001.
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L'objet de notre recherche a ete de comprendre le suicide a travers la theorie des choix rationnels. Les theories existantes, medicales et sociologiques, sont d'abord discutees ; notre modele explicatif, puis le champ de notre etude, sont ensuite precises : le milieu carceral, par la deprivation qu'il inflige a l'acteur, est un cadre privilegie pour etudier les conduites suicidaires. L'analyse des lettres de suicide laissees par les detenus constitue une premiere validation de notre modele, completee ensuite par une etude epidemiologique du suicide en prison. L'analyse montre que deux types de deprivation incitent l'acteur a choisir le suicide : une deprivation de l'autonomie ou des ressources affectives qui prend forme dans l'interaction, donnant generalement lieu a la redaction d'une lettre, une deprivation sociale et materielle, ne donnant pas lieu a la redaction d'une lettre. Le champ empirique est ensuite elargi a la periode precedant l'incarceration (au moyen des dossiers d'expertise psychiatrique) et au milieu libre (par le tirage au sort d'un groupe temoin). Ces dernieres observations convergent vers nos premieres conclusions : le suicide peut etre considere comme un choix a travers lequel l'acteur maximise sa satisfaction et obeit en cela a une certaine rationalite. Cette rationalite est limitee par le poids des contraintes qui influencent sa decisionThe purpose of our research was to understand suicide by means of the theory of rational choices. The best known theories, medical as well as sociological, are first discused. Our explanatory model and the scope of our study where then examined : the prison, by the deprivation which it inflicts upon the actor, is an ideal framework to study the behavior of people who commit suicide. The analysis of the letters left by the prisoners enables us to validate our model. It is completed by an epidemiological study of suicide in jail. The analysis shows that deprivation leads the actor to choose suicide : a deprivation of autonomy or affective resources whichs follows jailing, usually gives rise to the writing of a letter whereas social and material deprivation does not. The empirical field of study is extended to the period which precedes jailing by means of documents about the psychiatric condition of the person who committed suicide and about the general public (randomly selected). These observations lead to the same conclusions. Suicide may be considered as a choice by which the actor maximises his satisfaction : it appears as a rational choice. However this rationality is limited by the constraints that influence his decision
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Acton, Sarah Beth. "JESUS' PRISON: A NOVEL." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1280710768.
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