School is a privileged context for the first manifestation of disruptive and antisocial behavior, but also for its control and prevention. Based on the perspective of teaching professionals, our aim is to analyze and compare students' antisocial behavior and the disciplinary measures adopted in Educational Territories of Priority Intervention (TEIP schools) and non-TEIP schools. To this end, a total of 134 scho...
Este estudo caracterizado por um desenho exploratório, descritivo, transversal e retrospetivo, delimitado por uma análise baseada na observação e no autorrelato, recorreu ao inquérito psicossocial com apelo à técnica do questionário tendo como objetivo geral identificar a prevalência de vitimação policial através da experiência e perceção vividas por Militares da GNR no exercício das suas funções. Mais especifi...
A escola constitui um contexto privilegiado não só para a manifestação dos primeiros comportamentos disruptivos e antissociais, mas também para a seu o controlo e prevenção. Tendo por base a perspetiva dos profissionais de ensino, procura-se analisar e comparar os comportamentos antissociais dos alunos e as medidas disciplinares adotadas em Territórios Educativos de Intervenção Prioritária (escolas TEIP) e esco...
School climate (SC) reflects the culture and norms of the school community, being a potential factor linked to students’ disruptive behavior (DB). This study intended to characterize the Portuguese school professionals’ perception on SC, analyzing the connections to the students’ DB. Another objective was to explore the differences on SC based on the functions of school professionals and school geographic locat...
This paper addresses subjective insecurity, namely perceptions of (in)security and criminal variables on campus among Portuguese higher education students. Additionally, predictors of perceptions of (in)security and gender differences were also examined. The participants were 775 students and data were collected through the “Diagnosis of Local Security Questionnaire”. Robbery, physical assault, theft, and sexua...
Este estudo que visou avaliar a percepção de segurança e crime /vitimação na cidade do Funchal. Entre os objectivos específicos contaram: i) Levantamento de dados sociodemográficos da área urbana avaliada; ii) Caracterização da perceção de (in)segurança dos sujeitos avaliados; ii) Conhecimento acerca das experiências de vitimação direta e indireta; iv) Apreciação pela população sobre o controlo social (formal e...
This quantitative, correlational, and transversal study was performed with a sample of 482 participants from an urban community at the Historic Centre of Porto (HCP). Participants answered to an enquiry designed to collect information about (dis)satisfaction with the police and its performance, with sociodemographic, victimisation, criminal, environmental, social control, and community variables as potential pr...
The lack of organisation in urban spaces plays a decisive role in the level of integration, communication and social bonds of the residents, impacting the citizens’ feelings of trust and security. Different personal variables and contextual characteristics have been associated with the fear of crime (FOC). The main objective of this study is to analyse how individual and social/environmental variables, and inci...
This study aims to quantify and characterize direct and indirect victimization and to analyse the associations between victimization and sociodemographic, criminal and environmental, social control and community variables in the urban area of the Historic Centre of Porto (hcp), Portugal. A total of 554 participants answered the “Diagnosis of Local Security Questionnaire” through face-to-face inquiry. The overal...
This article describes a curated dataset entitled “Looking at Crime: Communities and Physical Spaces”, which comprises data from different sources, namely Diagnosis of Local Security (DLS), Diagnosis of School Environment (DSE) and observation of physical spaces. The main topic covered was crime and related variables at the Historic Centre of Porto (HCP), a well-known urban area located in the North of Portugal...