The institutionalisation of young offenders

Psicología de la violación

This paper reviews the psychological literature on rape. The first part focuses on the rapist, stressing the aggressive nature of rape and the necessity to overcome the typological approach. The second part studies the victim, underlying the impact of the aggression suffered and the difficult circumstances that follow the victim's report to police. It concludes by stressing the social side of rape and some preventive measures are suggested.

The influence of treatment programmes on the recidivism of juvenile and adult offenders: An european meta-analytic review

Abstract Meta-analyses have examined the effectiveness of different treatment techniques on delin-quent and criminal behaviour in America and Europe. In one of the last meta-analyses, that integrated the results of programmes applied in European countries (Redondo, Garrido, and Sanchez-Meca, 1997), the global effect size obtained for all treatment and effectiveness measures (Psychological factors, education, etc.) was d = 0.3039 (r = 0.15). In general, it muld be interpreted that treatment groups surpassed controls by 15%, On this work, the results of a meta-analysis to determine which treatments are more effective in reducing on recidivism rates are presented. A total of 32 European studie…

Crime Treatment in Europe: A Review of Outcome Studies

La educación social en el ámbito penitenciario

Los autores proponen el modelo cientifico-tecnologico como un modelo apropiado desde el cual enfrentarse a cuestiones pedagogico-sociales. Las consecuencias practicas que se derivan de la adopcion de la perspectiva tecnologica, asi como la especificidad del medio penitenciario son algunos de los temas centrales del capitulo, que finaliza con una apuesta clara a favor de la intervencion socioeducativa como instrumento valido en la rehabilitacion de los sujetos delincuentes.