VIOLÊNCIA NA ESCOLA: das ofensas ao delito penal Uma análise na cidade de São Luís

Abstract

This research investigates as if it configures the violence in the ambit of the public schools and private in São Luís, from the students' perceptions, teachers, directors and administrative technicians. Methodology , they were used the quantitative and qualitative approaches, by means of questionnaires applied to the students enrolled in the second cycle of the fundamental teaching and average teaching, in the morning and evening turn of schools located in considered districts as violent and no violent and of focal groups, accomplished with student leaderships of the same schools. The complexity of the violence concept is evidenced, with base in the literature on the theme , which identifies multiple comprehensions and explanatory tendencies. The argued and conceptions are argued of the subjects searched concerning the violence at school and her characteristics, highlighting the points from encounter and disagreement between theoretical focuses and this vision and, yet, the perceptions of these subject about the causes of the violence in the school environment. To the final, are characterized the violence practices in the quotidian of school, in that tell respect to homicides, corporeal lesions, fights, illegal constraint, threats, sexual violence (rape, attempt rape and sexual blockade), weapon use, thefts and gangs, identifying authors and victims of these occurrences.