The objective of this work is to check the concepts of school violence among the members of a private school, in Vitória, and to analyze how they deal with violence. The majority of them take into account two aspects of school violence: the physical and the verbally expressed ones. The family which does not follow socially-acceptable parameters has been pointed out as the main cause of school violence; second, comes the enviroment in which the student lives or where the school is located, which shows the little importance attached to activities developed within the school building.
School violence; Private school; Moral authonomy
