Bullying escolar e criminalidade adulta: um estudo com egressos do sistema prisional de Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

Bullying is one of the types of school violence with greater prominence in academia in recent decades. Entails harmful consequences in the short and long term for all involved, disorders which may vary from physiological, psychological, social, risk behaviors such as drinking alcohol and other drugs, carrying weapons, engaging in fights and aggressive behavior, delinquent and/or violent. This study aimed to investigate the possible association between school bullying and involvement in acts of crime in adulthood. We interviewed 54 former convicts who participated in the program for government social reintegration of Minas Gerais, in Juiz de Fora. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed using the technique of content analysis. The results showed that 20 egresses not involved in episodes of bullying, but 10 of these were involved in school violence, 3 in school violence and gang fights and only 1 in gang fights, leaving only six egresses who were not involved with any incident of violence in the period studied. As perpetrators of bullying were identified 18 egresses (9 also were involved in school violence and 3 in gang fights); witnesses were identified as five egresses; as victim-aggressor 4 and only one victim as egress. It was not clear involvement of 7 egresses in episodes of bullying, but these two were involved in school violence and gang fights; one was engaged only with the first and one with only the second. The direct and verbal bullying was the most frequent type with 70.9% and were the main victims 'chubby' with 20.9% and 'shy' with 13.9%. Drug trafficking offense appeared as the most practiced (35.1%), followed by robbery (20.2%), assault (13.5%) and theft (6.7%), among others. Discussions were held from the data collected.