TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

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Torture and ill-treatment of children in Ukrainement of minors. Ten experts were invited to take part. The focus group wasrun in accordance with the project requirements in mandatory tool F.1344.2. Results broken down by the research components4.2.1 Instrument С1Semi-structured interviews were taken of prisoners serving sentences incorrective colonies for minors at Kuryazh, Melitopol and Pryluky; 2 for males,one for females, with 20 from each institution. The interviews were carried outwith the assistance of the State Penitentiary Service. This part of the researchwas on condition of total anonymity, with the interviews not gathering personaldata about the prisoners and information which could make it possibleto identify officials during the survey was not reported.The prisoners were informed about the objective of the study in accordancewith the technical requirements of the Client. Verbal agreement to thestudy was received from the prisoners since signatures and personal data onthe consent form would have made it possible to identify the person. Boththe respondents and the institution personnel objected to giving written consent.Some of the respondents asked additional questions about the purposeof the study and the organizations taking part in it.As standard factors for their unlawful behaviour, the respondentspoint to:1) Social orphan position.A considerable percentage of the prisoners live in broken families, beingbrought up by elderly relatives. The parents are separated, one or bothhave died, or have been working abroad for a long period; one or both parentsfail to take part in bringing them up. We would note that upbringingin State children’s homes or school –orphanages only partially and formallyresolves the problem of social orphans. Young people from school-orphanagesquite often form a considerable percentage of the population of correctivecolonies. For example, just in the Pryluky Colony at one time therewere four young people formerly from one of the school-orphanages of theZhytomyr oblast.2) Difficult financial situation and / or the impossibility of earning moneyhonestly. For example, one of respondents was taken by her mother for agri-
Section 4Torture and ill-treatment of children in the context of juvenile justicecultural work to Russia, starting from when she was 11. Another respondentwas presented with the choice by her mother, — to herself “earn” money forclothes and food, or to go to school, but then her mother wouldn’t feed andclothe her. Instead of school, she did housework, and at her mother’s demandepisodically begged.The prisoner is an orphan and lives with his grandmother; at the age of 13he began earning for himself honestly, by working as a loader or agriculturalworker, but couldn’t earn enough even for a modest life. He was convicted ofinvolvement in killing and robbing a pensioner who hadn’t paid him for agriculturalwork. He doesn’t see his actions as revenge and instead of robbery,had planned to break into the home and steal something, whereas the killinghappened as a form of excess.3) Drunkenness and alcoholism.Parents and people replacing them regularly over-consume alcohol andwhen drunk fight among themselves or commit violent acts against children.Alcoholism also worsens minors’ financial situation. In one case the mothernot only sold all the furniture to pay for alcohol, but even the parquet floorin the flat where she lives with her daughter. Parents who are alcoholics arenot capable of protecting their children from harmful habits, and moreoversometimes actually encourage “moderate” child drinking. As a result of thisminors see abuse of alcohol as the norm and begin “experimenting” with toxicsubstances and drugs, committing crimes while intoxicated.Some respondents explain the crimes committed as being largely dueto loss of self-control under the influence of alcohol and circumstance.They say that sober, they would have been able to refrain from unlawfulbehaviour.4) The destructive influence of their peers and / or older adolescents; thewish to assert themselves and gain high status among peers through unlawfulbehaviour. As a rule, outside the criminal group, the minors do not get enoughattention or human treatment. Although, according to formal characteristics,they are not social orphans, their generally comfortably-off parents do notgive their kids sufficient attention or treat them in an excessively strict or inadequatefashion.We would note that typically the questionnaires reflect the merger of twoor more of the above-mentioned criminogenic factors. It virtually never happensthat one appears in pure form.135
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