In December, the US Departments of Education and Justice jointly issued their annual report on school safety. This document provides data on "the nature and scope of school violence in the United States," highlights 54 communities that are implementing "the collaborative, problem-solving model" featured in last year's Report, presents summary information on successful prevention programs around...

April 21 marked the second anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School where 12 students and one teacher were killed and 23 others injured. Recent events in the news suggest that the nation is far from "finding closure" for the incident. To begin with, on Friday, preliminary statements by the chairman of the Governor's Columbine Review Commission criticized law officers' tactics during...

This two-part, seven-article series from the Chicago Sun Times originally published in October 2000 examines the phenomenon of random school shootings. Relying primarily on research done by the Secret Service, the articles examine the psyches, motivations, and profiles of adolescent school shooters from the last 25 years -- a varied bunch in terms of demographics -- and consider means to identify...

Focused on school safety, the site above provides a host of information from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). As with previous In the Spotlight offerings from NCJRS (see the August 17, 2001 Scout Report), the front page of the School Safety site acts as a portal to statistical information, legislation, relevant publications, funding opportunities, other related Websites,...

Released on October 13, 1998, this report is the first in an annual series on school crime and safety from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It offers data on different aspects of school crime and safety and describes victim characteristics. The report consists of five sections: Nonfatal Student Victimization--Student Reports; Violence and...

On September 28, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a major report. This report analyzes national data from several sources on crimes committed in schools and to and from schools. In addition, "data for crime away from school are also presented to place school crime in the context of crime in the larger society." According to the NCES, this report represents the most...

The annual report from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics presents data on crime in schools and aggregates information from a variety of sources: the National Crime Victimization Survey (1992-98); the School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (1989, 1995, and 1999); the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (1993, 1995, and 1997); and...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) last week released their annual report Indicators of School Crime and Safety (last discussed in the November 3, 2000 Scout Report). The text, which draws from a variety of sources including the National Crime Victimization Survey and School Crime Supplement, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and the School and Staffing Survey, presents data on...

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 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) takes a critical look at data from the 2007 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Authored by Jill Fleury DeVoe and Lynn Bauer, the report was released in July 2010 and it provides findings on "student reports of the presence of gangs and weapons and the availability of drugs at school, student...