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EXCHANGE PROGRAM FOR HUMAN SERVICE WORKERS |
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ROME CONFERENCE 2001 |
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Workshop n. 3
DIVERSITY
IN CORRECTIONS: THE ITALIAN CASE |
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In the year 1975 Italian
legislation introduced a penitentiary law based on a different way to consider
and treat the human being who committed a crime. The evolution of times
facilitated such a “revolutionary” achievement, which is an on-going process
dealing constantly with a diversity of many kinds. The new codified
perspective expresses the awareness that there can be many reasons for criminal
behaviour, and often responsibilities are shared between the individual and
society. The attempt of the State
to assume its share of responsibility by creating more favourable conditions for
these people, may make the difference in discerning the menace from the asset
that this population can represent in the community. The workshop will try to relay the salient aspects of the mentioned law, its implementation in the past 26 years and some of the human diversities involved, considering that among the various professional roles the one of the social worker is among the most important. Thus, the attempt to illustrate the implications for SW as an active part in the on-going process to turn the menace into an asset, in theory and in the actual experience of the Italian case.
CIF ITALIA Speaker/facilitator: Luisa Gandini, Foreign
language teacher from 1970 to 1981 in public schools, including a two year
period at the Juvenile Prison »Beccaria« in Milan; 1981 to 1984 social worker
in the Penitentiary Administration; from 1985 Director of Social Work Centres of
the same Administration (Milan and Como), and since 1998 at the central office
in Rome in charge of international
relations. In 1986 participated in CIP in the State of New York with placement
at Suffolk County Probation Department. Past President of the European Probation
Association (AETSJ). One of the 11 founding members of CIF Italia, there is
definitely a passion for international exchanges here. |
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