Public attitudes toward funding preschool programs to prevent violence
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2-2017
Abstract
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.
Publication Title
Criminal Justice Studies
Volume
30
Issue
1
First Page
17
Last Page
29
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1080/1478601X.2016.1267008
ISSN
1478601X
E-ISSN
14786028
Citation Information
Forde, & Heckler, N. C. (2017). Public attitudes toward funding preschool programs to prevent violence. Criminal Justice Studies, 30(1), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2016.1267008