Neelie Perez

This study evaluates the effects of the law for judicial redemption of sentences through work and study on sentence reduction in a sample of prisoners at the Centro Penitenciario de Los Andes. General information is presented regarding the application of the law and it is calculated that 43.21% of the prison population has received a reduction in sentence. The mean reduction is 24.46%, in others words, one quarter in each prison sentence. In addition, the study finds that the proportional reduction is greater for shorter sentences indicating the importance of this law in the progressive fulfillment of prison terms.

El proposito del trabajo que se presenta es analizar la participacion ciudadana como forma de prevencion del delito a traves del estudio de algunas experiencias recientes impulsadas por el Ejecutivo Nacional. La intencion es identificar sus beneficios, exponer sus limitaciones y riesgos. Gracias al analisis de las acciones implementadas en esta area, se podran identificar los tipos y dimensiones de la participacion en la gestion de la seguridad.

Survey instruments are often watermarked with the language, thought patterns, experience and expectations of their designers’ cultural world. This creates some evident challenges when using surveys in international research projects (for example, in finding equivalent terms in translation), but also some less evident ones deriving from potentially hidden local variations in social experience, values and cognition. Using examples from the International Self-Report Delinquency Study, this article identifies several potential challenges to measurement that arise when an instrument designed with the youth of industrialized democracies in mind is presented to adolescents in a Latin American country (Venezuela). Some strategies for addressing these challenges are outlined.

Survey instruments are often watermarked with the language, thought patterns, experience and expectations of their designers' cultural world. This creates some evident challenges when using surveys in international research projects (for example, in finding equivalent terms in translation), but also some less evident ones deriving from potentially hidden local variations in social experience, values and cognition. Using examples from the International Self-Report Delinquency Study, this article identifies several potential challenges to measurement that arise when an instrument designed with the youth of industrialized democracies in mind is presented to adolescents in a Latin American country (Venezuela). Some strategies for addressing these challenges are outlined.

Survey instruments are often watermarked with the language, thought patterns, experience and expectations of their designers' cultural world. This creates some evident challenges when using surveys in international research projects (for example, in finding equivalent terms in translation), but also some less evident ones deriving from potentially hidden local variations in social experience, values and cognition. Using examples from the International Self-Report Delinquency Study, this article identifies several potential challenges to measurement that arise when an instrument designed with the youth of industrialized democracies in mind is presented to adolescents in a Latin American country (Venezuela). Some strategies for addressing these challenges are outlined.