Ecology and Quality of Life in Urban Slums: An Empirical Study, 2007

Social Change ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Bhaswati Das
Author(s):  
Guillermo López Cala ◽  
Yolanda María de la Fuente Robles ◽  
Rosa María Fernández Alcalá

This chapter deals with accessibility, a relevant and important concept for every citizen in the improvement of their quality of life in any environment or daily situation. Specifically, an empirical study about accessibility in the public health centers of a Basic Health Area (BHA) of Jaén is carried out. From this study, accessibility deficiencies in health buildings are revealed, and explicit proposals are provided with the aim of improving accessibility in different scopes such as information and communications. The improvement plans based on the use of Technology, Information, and Communication (TIC) tools help sensory disabled users that attend to the Health Center.


2010 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuran Bayram ◽  
Firat Bilgel ◽  
Nazan Gonul Bilgel

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Frederick

MUST the empirical study of business ethics and values stand in the shadow of positivism? If so, does that constrain such studies to normatively sterile descriptions of purported facts? And would the methods thus employed fall short of yielding needed normative perspectives on business decisions that occasionally mean life or death, and even more often affect the quality of life, for those who feel their weight? Are the values and ethical principles that lie behind business actions so elusive, so inaccessible, so imprecise that they must remain forever in the shadowy realm of speculation and commonsense opinion, never to be liberated from positivism’s Gulag?


CEPAL Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 (129) ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
Bilver Adrián Astorquiza Bustos ◽  
Óscar Armando Chingal

Author(s):  
Dani Rudnicki ◽  
Marili Antunes Neubüser

Resumo: Buscamos determinar, neste artigo, como vivem as mulheres obrigadas a cumprir pena restritiva de liberdade ou a trabalhar na Penitenciária Feminina Madre Pelletier. Essa pesquisa qualitativa utilizou, para tanto, metodologia baseada no estudo empírico da realidade prisional; os dados foram obtidos em 2015, com a realização de um grupo focal com cinco apenadas e a aplicação de questionário a 14 agentes penitenciárias, além da coleta de impressões em outras pesquisas dos autores, bem como na experiência de um dos pesquisadores, que trabalha há mais de cinco anos no local. Além disso, utilizamos como fonte, entre outros, registros em livros da instituição e bibliografia pertinente. Concluímos que, com o fim da superlotação, em 2012, a qualidade de vida melhorou para ambos os grupos. Isso porque na época da superlotação carcerária as relações interpessoais entre presas aconteciam com mais violência (provocada por lideranças que impunham regras). Logo, ainda que o sistema prisional continue a violar direitos humanos das presas, hoje mais direitos são respeitados do que quando existia superlotação.Palavras-chave: Direitos humanos; Criminologia; Prisões; Penitenciária feminina Madre Pelletier; Superlotação. Abstract: We seek to recognize, in this paper, the conditions of the daily lives of women who have received prison sentences and those who work in the Women's Penitentiary Madre Pelletier. Therefore, this research uses a qualitative methodology based on an empirical study of the prison’s reality; data were obtained in 2015, with the use of a focus group with five prisoners and questionnaire to 14 prison officers, as well as collection of prints in other studies and the experience of one of the researchers, who has been working there for more than five years. In addition, we use as a source, among others, records in the institution’s books and relevant bibliography. We conclude that, with the end of overcrowding in 2012, the quality of life improved in both groups. Before, interpersonal relationships between inmates happened with more violence (caused by leaders who imposed rules). Thus, even though the prison system continues to violate human rights of the arrested, more rights are respected today than when there was overcrowding.Keywords: Human rights; Criminology; Prisons; Madre Pelletier Women’s Prison; Overcrowding.


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