Abstract:
The present study’s objective is to analyze the violence reduction impacts of the Program Community School (Programa Comunidade Escola) on the participant and not participant schools and on their respective communities. First of all, a classification of different forms of violence is carried out. Additionally, there is a discussion about the violence causes on the basis of different theories. Subsequently, it is presented a relation between violence and school based on an exposition of different forms of violence into the school environment. Finally, the empirical analysis is carried out by means of data collect from questionnaires application. The results indicate that the Program Community School has a relevant impact on violence reduction.
Keywords:Program Community School; Violence; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers) New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab Date: 2008 Note: Creation Date corresponds to the year in which the paper was published on the Department of Economics website. The paper may have been written a small number of months before its publication date. View list of referencesView citations in EconPapers