RT Article
T1 Public attitudes toward funding preschool programs to prevent violence
JF Criminal justice studies
VO 30
IS 1
SP 17
OP 29
A1 Forde, David R.
A2 Heckler, Nina C.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/172858776X
AB Public policy on violence prevention has increasingly focused on early childhood interventions to reduce violence over the life course. This paper examines public attitudes toward funding of programs in schools to enhance learning and to reduce violence. The data come from telephone surveys in a large Southern US City collected from 2004 to 2007. The paper explores the relationship between public funding of programs and increased taxes for programs. PLUM Ordinal Regression models were used to predict attitudes toward prevention programs controlling for demographic variables and political affiliation. Implications of these findings are discussed for understanding of attitudes toward school-based programs and their funding.
K1 Early childhood interventions
K1 Public Opinion
K1 Violence Prevention
DO 10.1080/1478601X.2016.1267008