Characteristics of violence against children in a Brazilian Capital Características de la violencia contra los niños en una capital brasileña Características da violência contra a criança em uma capital brasileira

• Main Authors: Maíra Rosa Apostólico (Author), Caroline Rife Nóbrega (Author), Rebeca Nunes Guedes (Author), Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca (Author), Emiko Yoshikawa Egry (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The purpose of this exploratory, descriptive and retrospective study with a quantitative approach was to characterize violence against children in Curitiba. Reports of 2004 through 2008 about compulsory denouncements of violence cases were analyzed. The results showed an increase in violence, with h...