‘A tiger that wants to become a lion’: Violent forms of agency among youth in Cape Verde

Cape Verdean prison population raised 100% in the last ten years: in this paper I offer an interpretation of this disturbing figure, addressing the issue of young offenders and children in conflict with the law, the perception of youth crime in Cape Verde, and how the government has recently dealt with these issues. Cape Verde currently deploys a repressive approach to the issue of youth crime: in this draconian context, I will follow the application of policies and laws targeting juvenile delinquents as well as the public and media discourse on the issue. At the same time, through interviews with younger inmates in prisons and institutions, I will relocate young offenders’ behavior and activity within their wider social context, providing urgently needed data on the cultural and social dimensions of juvenile offending and violence.

Aplicação da Teoria de Filas na Análise da Capacidade Operacional de um Sistema - Estudo Caso BCA Porto Novo

O presente trabalho tem como objectivo demonstrar a importância da teoria de filas de espera para avaliar a capacidade de atendimento da agência do Banco Comercial do Atlântico da Cidade do Porto Novo em Santo Antão. A procura de clientes que utilizam os serviços da agência é considerado grande, sendo comum entre esses clientes a insatisfação pelo tempo esperado na fila. O objectivo da teoria das filas de espera consiste em obter modelos adequados de situações que envolvem filas, de modo a prever o seu comportamento. Esse comportamento é expresso por diversas medidas de desempenho, designadamente, a taxa de chegada dos clientes e taxa de atendimento do sistema de fila. Com a realização deste estudo de caso foi possível identificar a capacidade de atendimento e simular e analisar o comportamento do sistema, quanto ao tempo de espera na fila e no sistema, tamanho da fila e do sistema. Para a resolução do problema foram então construídos dois cenários a fim de propor melhoria no sistema. The present task has as aim to show a study research based on the queue line to evaluate the capacity of service at the agency of Banco Comercial do Atlantico of Porto Novo City in Santo Antão. The search of the clients who use the agency services is considered enormous, and this clients have in common the dissatisfaction with the time that they wait in the queue line. The aim of the queue line theory is to acquire appropriate model of the situations in which thequeue lines are formed, in order to forsee its behaviour. This behaviour is expressed by diverse measures of performance, relatively the cllients’ comimg rates and the service rates found at the line system, and it was possible to identify the capacity of service and simulate and analise the system’s behaviour considering the time of waiting in the queue line and in the system, the queue line and system’s size To solve the problem were built 2 scenes so that to propose an improvement in the system.

Lack of Discipline in Cape Verdean Secondary Schools: The Need to Better Define the Problem and Develop Strategies to Prevent or Manage the Situation

This research paper has been written with the intention to discuss the problem of discipline in Cape Verdean secondary schools. While many of us discuss the effects that student misbehavior has on the student misbehavior has on the student, school and society as a whole, very few of us seek solutions which would impact on the prevention and management of this problem that each day becomes more complicated and harder to handle. This paper will discuss the need to better define discipline at the school level; identify the causes and factors that aggravate the problem, in addition, to provide what I hope to be useful strategies to better manage the problem as we make the effort to reclaim our schools and better educate our students. My research included surveys completed by teachers and student alike as they baffled over the question: what is discipline and how can we better manage discipline problems at our schools?