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DEMAND REDUCTION: 

CULTURE OF LAWFULNESS

Area:

Demand Reduction

Project Name

Culture of Lawfulness

Start Date / Duration:

June 2005 / ongoing

Location:

Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador.

Beneficiaries:

Students ranging between the ages of 13 and 15 from abovementioned  states.

Participating Institutions:

National Strategy Information Center (NSIC), Department of  Education, National Antidrugs Commission.

Budget:

 

Donors:

INL U.S. State Department Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

Project Description:

Culture of lawfulness, an educational program for students between 13 and 15 years, is designed to change attitudes and behaviors of high school students towards corruption, crime, violence, and drug trafficking and abuse.

In order to achieve the program's goals concerning education, a lesson plan has been designed including four general sections: values and culture of lawfulness, culture and respect of laws, delinquency and corruption and promotion of a lawfulness culture. Each one of the sections organizes various participative activities in which the students are intended to discover by themselves the importance of the observance of social rules, address them to acquire a sense of social responsibility, provides decision making tools and to overcome difficulties.

Objectives:

The program is focused mainly to orient and  educate the students to respect the law, to participate in the community, to take healthy decisions and to understand the role that play parents, families and the society in the solution of the problems that threaten public security. 

Links:

CULTURE OF LAWFULNESS

Guide to Developing a Culture of Lawfulness, Dr. Roy Godson