Cartography of violence: a methodology to build public policies

Abstract

The objective of this article is to present the methodology and results of the research project entitled Public Policy and Violence on Children and Adolescents at Araraquara . The diagnosis of children and adolescents violence was found through the occurrences registered in the Guardian Council and in the Woman’s Police station, which allowed us to identify the territories that hold the highest index of this type of violence, its physical dimension and its causes in the municipal district of Araraquara. The choice of that municipal district is due to the fact that its being located in the central area of the State of São Paulo, with a population of approximately 200 thousand inhabitants that, in spite of having a low index of territorial exclusion, it has been presenting countless of cases of violence cases on children and adolescents. The building of a database and the digitalization of the urban net made possible to evaluate public policies for children and adolescent. Key words: Violence; children and adolescents; public policies; geoprocessing; territories of the violence, cartography of the violence.