Educational policy has increasingly focused on holding teachers and schools accountable for student performance. Yet popular and academic writers have long connected exposure to neighborhood violence to poor student performance. Newly available datasets, statistical methods and computer technology allow for greater power and additional control in analyzing this relation. Using school and neighborhood data (N = 792,374 students from 1,240 school neighborhoods) from New York City between 2006 and 2010, multilevel models were used to test whether exposure to violence in the school neighborhood (the number of police-reported felony assaults, homicides, rapes and robberies) predicts student performance (scaled scores on annual English and math tests). Violent crime is significantly associated with negative students outcomes controlling for a host of student and school neighborhood level variables including poverty and prior violent crime. Effect sizes were larger when predicting math outcomes than English, and for students in middle school as opposed to elementary school. These findings suggest that educational policymakers must distinguish exposure to violence from teacher and school effects and that neighborhood violence must be addressed by stakeholders of child development whether in schools or in society at large.

Exposure to community gun violence is increasing a sense of anxiety and hypervigilance in American society today. Whether or not they are direct victims, American children and adolescents often become casualties of community gun violence. Their safety, well-being, and even survival are at risk due to continued exposure to gun violence in their communities. This study utilized a retrospective sample of adolescents derived from the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) to understand the prevalence and severity of cognitive and emotional symptoms associated with childhood exposure to community gun violence compared to other types of adverse childhood events. The results showed that adolescents who have been exposed to community gun violence self-reported higher levels of negative emotion and cognitive disturbance in comparison to peers who have had no exposure to these forms of adverse events. Compared to these peers reporting no adverse events, an increase of 30% was observed in negative emotions and 33% in cognitive disturbance when the adolescent is exposed to community gun violence. An increase of 22% in negative emotions and 30% in cognitive disturbance was observed when an adolescent is exposed to other forms of community disorder. Finally, adolescent participants who were exposed to childhood adverse events other than community disorder and gun violence reported 8% greater negative emotions and 28% greater cognitive disturbance than peers reporting no adverse events during adolescence. These results suggest that exposure to gun violence promotes negative emotionality and increases cognitive disturbance.

Despite the growing recognition of the prevalence of domestic violence worldwide, there is an increasing number of women reporting abuse, and there are those who have died at the hands of their abusers. Many of these domestic violence situations involve children who grow up carrying the physical and/or emotional scars of abuse into adulthood, which also has negative implications for their social well-being. This study adopts a qualitative approach to analysing emerging themes relating to the experiences of eight adult participants (four men and four women) who have lived in domestically violent homes during their childhood. The study deals with definitions of abuse, the social, physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural and psychological effects of abuse and identifies the social consequences of growing up in a violent home. With reference to the research interviews, it is the researcher’s finding that if there is violence in the home, children’s socialisation will be impaired. The results of the study support the hypothesis that the socialisation of adults and their ability to form healthy relationships are hindered by being exposed to domestic violence during childhood. In terms of the goals of intervention, the basic principle is that children need to be provided with a safe environment, appropriate discipline and a secure relationship with an attentive caregiver. The ultimate goal of intervention is to prevent further harm and promote recovery. Socio-educational goals include being taught to communicate and settle differences without the use of violence, to promote the development of well-adjusted social beings. / Educational Foundations / M. Ed. (Socio-Education)

Despite the growing recognition of the prevalence of domestic violence worldwide, there is an increasing number of women reporting abuse, and there are those who have died at the hands of their abusers. Many of these domestic violence situations involve children who grow up carrying the physical and/or emotional scars of abuse into adulthood, which also has negative implications for their social well-being. This study adopts a qualitative approach to analysing emerging themes relating to the experiences of eight adult participants (four men and four women) who have lived in domestically violent homes during their childhood. The study deals with definitions of abuse, the social, physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural and psychological effects of abuse and identifies the social consequences of growing up in a violent home. With reference to the research interviews, it is the researcher’s finding that if there is violence in the home, children’s socialisation will be impaired. The results of the study support the hypothesis that the socialisation of adults and their ability to form healthy relationships are hindered by being exposed to domestic violence during childhood. In terms of the goals of intervention, the basic principle is that children need to be provided with a safe environment, appropriate discipline and a secure relationship with an attentive caregiver. The ultimate goal of intervention is to prevent further harm and promote recovery. Socio-educational goals include being taught to communicate and settle differences without the use of violence, to promote the development of well-adjusted social beings. / Educational Foundations / M. Ed. (Socio-Education)

A violência doméstica contra a criança e o adolescente é considerada um fenômeno multifacetado que diz respeito às relações com abuso de poder entre pessoas que estabelecem vínculo afetivo de parentesco e/ou de convivência. Seu locus de manifestação tem sido a família em que, os adultos pais e mães são os autores, sujeitos e produtores dessa violência, enquanto as crianças e os adolescentes têm sido as pessoas que vivem em situação de violência doméstica. É um drama familiar que se constitui no coletivo, atravessado pela cultura, economia, religião e política. É neste cenário que o presente trabalho se desenvolve. Norteado por uma metodologia de natureza qualitativa, tem como objetivo compreender como as famílias, em situação de violência doméstica, atendidas por uma Organização Não-Governamental rompem com este cenário. Os participantes foram cinco famílias compostas por adultos, crianças e adolescentes, atores sociais que residem na cidade de Recife e Região Metropolitana. O instrumento utilizado foi a entrevista semiestruturada com perguntas concernentes à ruptura da violência doméstica contra a criança e o adolescente. Os dados coletados foram submetidos à Análise de Conteúdo, com o propósito de identificar os núcleos de sentidos que englobam quatro eixos temáticos: violências identificadas; vínculos: relações de afeto e poder; dinâmica familiar e processo de ruptura e caminhos para o rompimento. Através da análise do material coletado nas entrevistas, foi identificada a presença de violência física e psicológica doméstica no seio da família, sendo a mulher e mãe a principal autora dessas violências contra seus filhos e filhas. No entanto, o que chama atenção nas famílias pesquisadas é que a ruptura da violência doméstica começa a partir das próprias autoras, quando rompem com o pacto do silêncio, falando sobre as violências vividas, em um grupo de discussão composto por mulheres, facilitado por uma Organização Não-Governamental. As considerações finais sinalizam que: refazer os seus vínculos de afeto, rever e modificar sua dinâmica familiar e romper com a violência doméstica ocorreram a partir do rompimento do pacto do silêncio, ao estabelecer relações para além do convívio familiar. / Domestic violence against children and adolescents is considered as multifaceted phenomenon that is concerned to relations with power misuse among persons that would establish kinship and/or living together affective ties and they do not act like this. Its domestic violence manifestation locus has been the family which the adults fathers and mothers, i.e. parents, are themselves authors in, this violence subjects and producers, while the children and adolescents have, for their side, have been the persons that live under domestic violence situation. This is a familiar drama that has been framed within the collective world, transverse culture, economy, religion and politics. It is in this scenario that this work has been developed. Guided by a qualitative nature methodology, it this work aims at understanding the way families, within a domestic violence situation, attended by a Non-Governmental Organization, break through this scenario. Five families, constituted by adults, children and adolescents, all of themselves social actors that dwell in Recife city and its Recifes Metropolitan Regions have been participants in this research. The used instrument was the semistructured interview with questions concerning the domestic violence rupture against children and adolescents. The collected data have been subdued to a Content Analysis, aiming at identifying the senses that embody four thematic axes: identified violences, ties, affection and power relations, familiar dynamics and rupture process and ways toward to breaking out. Through material analysis, collected in the interviews, it has been identified domestic physical and psychological violence presence within families, being the woman and the mother these violences against her sons and daughters principal author. However, which attracts full attention among the researched families in the fact that the domestic violence rupture starts from the authors themselves, as they break out with the silence pact and start speaking about it, revealing the violence they have lived through and they have spoken out in a discussion group, constituted by women, which was dully made easy by a Non-Governmental Organization. The final considerations signal that: remaking their affection ties, reviewing and modifyind their familiar dynamics and breaking out with the domestic violence happened departing the silence pact rupture, as they establish relations further beyond their familiar living together.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:08:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_ilcelia.pdf: 1118719 bytes, checksum: 506b8ee70f80205606dc2d188f2b6afd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-10 / Domestic violence against children and adolescents is considered as multifaceted phenomenon that is concerned to relations with power misuse among persons that would establish kinship and/or living together affective ties and they do not act like this. Its domestic violence manifestation locus has been the family which the adults fathers and mothers, i.e. parents, are themselves authors in, this violence subjects and producers, while the children and adolescents have, for their side, have been the persons that live under domestic violence situation. This is a familiar drama that has been framed within the collective world, transverse culture, economy, religion and politics. It is in this scenario that this work has been developed. Guided by a qualitative nature methodology, it this work aims at understanding the way families, within a domestic violence situation, attended by a Non-Governmental Organization, break through this scenario. Five families, constituted by adults, children and adolescents, all of themselves social actors that dwell in Recife city and its Recife´s Metropolitan Regions have been participants in this research. The used instrument was the semistructured interview with questions concerning the domestic violence rupture against children and adolescents. The collected data have been subdued to a Content Analysis, aiming at identifying the senses that embody four thematic axes: identified violences, ties, affection and power relations, familiar dynamics and rupture process and ways toward to breaking out. Through material analysis, collected in the interviews, it has been identified domestic physical and psychological violence presence within families, being the woman and the mother these violences against her sons and daughters principal author. However, which attracts full attention among the researched families in the fact that the domestic violence rupture starts from the authors themselves, as they break out with the silence pact and start speaking about it, revealing the violence they have lived through and they have spoken out in a discussion group, constituted by women, which was dully made easy by a Non-Governmental Organization. The final considerations signal that: remaking their affection ties, reviewing and modifyind their familiar dynamics and breaking out with the domestic violence happened departing the silence pact rupture, as they establish relations further beyond their familiar living together. / A violência doméstica contra a criança e o adolescente é considerada um fenômeno multifacetado que diz respeito às relações com abuso de poder entre pessoas que estabelecem vínculo afetivo de parentesco e/ou de convivência. Seu locus de manifestação tem sido a família em que, os adultos pais e mães são os autores, sujeitos e produtores dessa violência, enquanto as crianças e os adolescentes têm sido as pessoas que vivem em situação de violência doméstica. É um drama familiar que se constitui no coletivo, atravessado pela cultura, economia, religião e política. É neste cenário que o presente trabalho se desenvolve. Norteado por uma metodologia de natureza qualitativa, tem como objetivo compreender como as famílias, em situação de violência doméstica, atendidas por uma Organização Não-Governamental rompem com este cenário. Os participantes foram cinco famílias compostas por adultos, crianças e adolescentes, atores sociais que residem na cidade de Recife e Região Metropolitana. O instrumento utilizado foi a entrevista semiestruturada com perguntas concernentes à ruptura da violência doméstica contra a criança e o adolescente. Os dados coletados foram submetidos à Análise de Conteúdo, com o propósito de identificar os núcleos de sentidos que englobam quatro eixos temáticos: violências identificadas; vínculos: relações de afeto e poder; dinâmica familiar e processo de ruptura e caminhos para o rompimento. Através da análise do material coletado nas entrevistas, foi identificada a presença de violência física e psicológica doméstica no seio da família, sendo a mulher e mãe a principal autora dessas violências contra seus filhos e filhas. No entanto, o que chama atenção nas famílias pesquisadas é que a ruptura da violência doméstica começa a partir das próprias autoras, quando rompem com o pacto do silêncio, falando sobre as violências vividas, em um grupo de discussão composto por mulheres, facilitado por uma Organização Não-Governamental. As considerações finais sinalizam que: refazer os seus vínculos de afeto, rever e modificar sua dinâmica familiar e romper com a violência doméstica ocorreram a partir do rompimento do pacto do silêncio, ao estabelecer relações para além do convívio familiar.