Documents found
-
675.
-
677.More information
AbstractIn this article, based on a field research with criminalized women in Quebec and with front line workers, we address the question of criminalized women's work. More specifically, we want to precise how those women define and give meaning to the concept of employment. We also want to review some of the existing resources created to help those women to find a job. Are they sufficient and do they really address the needs of the criminalized women? We also present the resources, projects and changes which would positively improve the employment policies toward criminalized women. Finally, we will question the efficiency of the penal policies toward criminalized women. Despite their obvious failures, those policies are still maintained. In that sense, our research emphasizes the need to re-think those policies by considering the women's expectations and experiments in terms of employment, by taking into account the numerous forms of oppression they are still submitted to, by trying to diminish or suppress the structural repressive ideology that negatively impacts on their lives.
-
679.More information
ABSTRACTDebates about child protection in Belgium at the turn of the last century are excellent examples of two diametrically opposed views of children. In one, the child is a private good that belongs to the father. This is the conservative vision, based on principles of the bourgeois family inherited from the Napoleonic Code. Another version treats children as a "public" good, in need of state protection when parents are negligent. This is the progressive view. Concerned about addressing the needs of an industrialised society, proponents of the second view promoted policies of "social defence" that treated child-rearing and prevention of juvenile delinquency as issues relating to the maintenance of social cohesion. New legislation did not completely eliminate the traditional model of the bourgeois family, centred around the father, however. It remained in place. Indeed, when it was necessary to take away the father's power, a "paternal and kindly" judge replaced him. The law came to the aid of the family, in order to support and reinforce it