Women's treatment in the legal process

Women's treatment in the legal process

Introduction

The purpose of punishment always, at least in legal texts, is the rehabilitation and social reintegration of the offender, as we shall see reality separates much of this statement, and sometimes even schedules for the actions of the administration are at backs of the target population sectors such intervention, this also is compounded in the case of women and youth.

Institutional intervention on maladaptive behavior arises from the absolute predominance of judicial approaches, making the institutions of social control agents (Taylor, 2004). The following paper attempts an approach to the reality of social intervention designed by the Prison Act. The purpose of punishment is always the rehabilitation and social reintegration of the offender. But the reality is separated much of this statement. Planning for performance management is back to population sectors involved. This mismatch is exacerbated in the case of women and youth.

Discussion

Crime is a social phenomenon that criminal legal matters. The crime is any act or omission contrary to law. This definition and others relate to the legally-criminal and criminology refers to the right to express the concept of crime (Anonymous, 2009). It means promoting and prevent these rights are not violated, and also to ensure that the person who are harmed will be compensated.

The fundamental purpose doctrine and legislation currently attributed to the penalties and measures of deprivation of liberty is special prevention, understood as rehabilitation and social reintegration of convicts, subject to pay due attention to the purposes of warning and intimidation General prevention demand as to the proportionality of the punishment to the seriousness of the crimes committed. At a regional level, social services laws also establish, among specific sectors of care, crime prevention and social reintegration of prisoners and ex-prisoners (Covington, 1998). But in this regulatory landscape, what really matters is whether there is such rehabilitation and social reintegration preaches that the constitutional text, and for this it is best to analyze the results of reintegration policies (Anonymous, 2005).

The woman in the prison -What do they go through?

Democratic development and economic development are just engines for progress towards equal opportunities, where education is compulsory until a certain age. There are other factors such as cultural and economic level of the family, good or bad relationships that exist therein, the sex to which she belongs, the place where you live, etc., which leads to any discriminatory treatment, less opportunities, dependence and lack of personal autonomy and, sometimes, poverty and marginalization (Gainsborough, n.d).

The nature of the female offender can be described from a number of features that would fit, without trying to make a rigid frame, in the following scheme: extended family group membership, frequent immigration status of the parents, slums, troubled family life, parents with high illiteracy rates, running away, high levels of illiteracy, close family members with criminal records and marginal practices, school failure, poor work activity, premature marriage and first birth, mating with male offenders, abundant practice marginal behaviors: prostitution, drugs and ...