The thesis presented by the congresswoman and current Minister of Labor Betssy Chavez Chino, to opt for the title of lawyer at the Jorge Basadre National University, has a similarity index of 49% with other works and reports related to the prison issue.
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This is revealed by a television report broadcast on Sunday night on the thesis “The prison treatment and the influence of recidivism and the habituality of the inmates of the Pocollay prison in the year 2012”, which the parliamentarian supported in 2015 and with the who graduated
case should be investigated
Correo consulted with the former dean of the Faculty of Legal and Business Sciences, Victor Damian Lopezin which Chavez Chino supported his degree, who pointed out that it should be investigated and that the parliamentarian is surely one of the most interested in clarifying the issue.
He clarified that he acted as president of the jury on that occasion because the thesis support regulations establish that the dean is the one who presides over it, not having greater expertise since he is an industrial engineer, but on the contrary there were two lawyers in the collegiate.
“For that there is a commission of degrees and titles of the School of Law that are pure lawyers, for that there is a thesis advisor, a lawyer obviously, so what I do is an administrative act of presiding over the jury according to the regulations”he explained.
political motivation
He specified that in those years there was still no requirement to submit the works to “anti-plagiarism” software, supposing that for this reason it was not applied at that time.
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Víctor Damián stressed that in this case, obviously “there is a political motivation because they want to lower the rim of the minister” and that precisely for this reason an investigation should be opened. “The most correct thing is that there is an academic investigation, because it is academic, and that the verdict is given and the most professional opinion that corresponds is issued”sentenced the professor.
Congresswoman’s response
Through a statement Betsy Chavez He pointed out that his thesis was worked hard and supported under the methodological rules of the time issued by the faculty, that the identity of a thesis is obtained based on the contribution obtained from the field work of the approach of the problem with its variables and the analysis of the information obtained.
“The fact that the Turnitin system returns alleged similarities of terms, words or sentences does not disable or diminish the value of the research work deployed”, add in the document.
