Sponsored by the White House Council on Youth Violence, the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center is a collaboration between the Council, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other federal agencies. The Resource Center Website is offered as a portal to federal information on youth violence prevention and suicide. The heart of the site is a sizable collection of...

This joint US Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics report analyzes two School Crime Supplements to the National Crime Victimization Survey. This unique report presents school crime from the perspective of its victims. Sections of the report deal with school victimization by gender and age, drug availability, and street gangs and guns at...

Originally commissioned in response to the Columbine High shootings, the Surgeon General's report on youth violence "examines the factors that lead young people to gravitate toward violence, reviews the factors that protect youth from perpetrating violence and identifies effective research-based preventive strategies." While acknowledging that there has been a downward trend in youth violence...