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Punishments and violence from teachers causes delinquency and deviancy among students. This paper investigated Students’ perception of violence at school as how violence is received by students. Two alternatives were assumed in construction of this variable: students’ preference to leave schools and result into dropouts or they learn violence to inflict on others at schools and loss of creativity, argumentation skills or otherwise. The third possibility is that they sustain violence and remain in school getting immune to the threat of violence and punishments. For data collection, a sample size of 522 respondents (54.6% boys and 45.4% girls) was randomly selected on proportional allocation basis from Grade 10 students. Frequency and percentage distribution along with Chi-square test was carried out at uni-variate and bi-variate levels. The findings of the study showed that almost all of the respondents (95.59%) agreed that violence at school is the major cause of dropout from school; only 4.41% did not perceive violence as a reason to high dropout having no significant relation established with (p=0.346), majority of 73.47% respondents agreed that harsh treatment of teacher is ineffective in making student to complete homework, but it create poor performance and student lose creativity skills. 10.34% respondents disagreed to this view and 16.28% were uncertain in this respect again, no significant relation was established with gender (p=0.311). The study concludes that school punishment is the main reason for school dropout, loss of creativity, delinquency and deviancy among students.

Dr. Jamil Ahmad Chitrali, Dr. Mussarat Anwar, Dr. Syeda Nabahat. (2014) Dynamics of Gender Based Violence: Investigating the Effects of Violence in Pakistani School on School Dropout and Loss of Creativity among Students, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Volume-06, Issue-2.
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