IN THOSE DAYS WHERE IS much talk of violence against women continued to feel uncomfortable,
relamente what it means for women raped aggravate the pain? When only 4% of women report the violence?
what it means to send offenders to prison, where they are when they come out exactly as before, and then prepared to resume their violence?
why you continue to insist on the violence committed by foreigners, so mystifying the fact that records made instead of violence by husbands, boyfriends, friends, colleagues and ex-husbands - boyfriends - friends
then I read an article about the Republic and maybe I will be advising the politicians that perhaps the thing to do, instead of rounds, that this experience would become the norm because of the few rapists, batterers and murderers of women who are sued and convicted at least their stay in prison will serve to change attitudes so that once out not to replicate the violence, lotus.
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in prison for "sex offenders" "Here we can recover"
CULURGIONI Republic of STEFANIA 22/02/2009
LONDON - In the prison subculture are "shameful." In the jargon of psychologists and prison workers are "sex offenders". Whichever way you call them, one thing is certain: when in jail, people who are guilty of a sexual offense are sent straight wards protected, and there confined. Separate from all, isolated from the rest of the prisoners, exiled in a group apart. Everywhere, except in prison Bollate.
It's called "Project of treatment and care of sex offenders in Handling Unit intensified and weakened section and is a pilot project launched in the institution of confinement in Milan three years ago. The only case in Italy where, after a year of treatment in a specialized unit within the prison, inmates can leave behind department protected and live daily with the other inmates of crimes "common".
"The sex offenders following an advanced treatment - says the director of the prison Lucia Castellano - a path designed specifically for those who have committed sexual offenses. Bollate Here to thirty people are now out of a total of 750 inmates. And in these three years I can say that the project has borne fruit. On 80 subjects, only three have been repeat offenders and one of them has asked to return to continue the therapy. "
Considered one of the most modern prisons, the prison Bollate was born in 2000 with one goal: to offer users held many possible job opportunities, training and social - rehabilitation. A constructive way to reduce the risk of relapse and promote gradual, but the final reintegration of the offender in a social context. "One thing is certain - the director still - think of prison as a place where you take the key and is thrown away, it makes no sense. It serves no purpose. The best way to prevent these serious facts Saying over and accompany the galley sensible paths. Do not get caught by the wave emotional, study well the measures to be taken to avoid recurrence. Addressing the problem rationally. And then, finally, 'hope' in the subject. Because the more than anything else, the choice of recovery depends on the person. "
Is the "abuser" that is, he has to say "yes, I want to heal." And the means to do a bubble, has them. The team that deals with sex offenders to follow in their path is part of the Italian Centre for the Promotion of Mediation (CIPM) in Milan. A team of three criminologists, seven psychologists, one psychiatrist, two educators, and a un'arteterapeuta locomotion. "The novelty of the bubble is that you have created a real drive therapeutic in itself, inside the prison, as if it were a small community," explains psychologist Luigi Colombo.
And it is there that, day after day for a year in a row, convicted sex offenders must deal with their monster interior. "The work has a daily basis - continues Colombo - The interviews are individual and group around the project focuses on the recognition of the crime. Because if there is one thing that makes the sex offender is this: deny, deny, deny . Detained negation is used to defend itself from the others. The easiest and most common is to try to prove to the cellmate, but also to the operator that is all an invention, which is innocent, who are victims of a tragic mistake. This serves to protect themselves from criticism and even to defend themselves. And it is the same mechanism that is put in place within the family, with his wife or his partner, when has not yet been jailed. Distortions of reality that too often we end up believing.
The main work of psychologists, then, is the negation. And when it's finished, the second part begins: the life out of the protected unit, among others prisoners. "At first, three years ago, it was not easy - remember Lucia Castellano - the 'others' reacted very badly, someone decided to ask for a transfer because he did not feel right. But those who enter to Bollate today knows what that will face: whether to sign, accepting the opportunity to share their cell with a sex offender. "
Most, according to the number of bubbles were Italian who have committed sexual offenses within the family. Daughters on fathers, stepfathers or on foster children, often with the connivance of the mother. Sometimes friends of the parents, but almost always people in the family circle. "Often these are people who have a very low external behavior, inhibited, passive - explains Colombo - The crimes of the herd but are more limited. They have learned that people commit a pattern of aggressive sexuality. Marginalized subjects who use violence to strengthen their masculine identity. They do it in a group because, before others, show themselves to be strong. "
For them to be among the other prisoners is a decisive step. "It 'a kind a testbed for anticipating their return into society - continues psychologist - a society in which, willy-nilly, will be subjected to harsh criticism. "
The CIPM follows a total of about 200 people (about thirty in the prison, the other criminal running outside. bring this crime, in reality, it is really difficult. Sexual violence are those with the "dark number" of the highest incidents not reported. "But once taken - emphasizes the director - they need to be made what they did before. The prison must also be the moment of consciousness, the place in which to reflect on their personality, to understand why you had the need to attack. Only in this way, Perhaps, once out of the sex offender will not repeat those most terrible violence ".
