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Executive Summary Foreword Acknowledgments Violent Deaths at School Nonfatal Student Victimization-Student Reports Violence and Crime at School-Public School Principal/ Disciplinarian Reports Nonfatal Teacher Victimization at School-Teacher Reports School Environment Figures Full Report (PDF - 2,265 KB)
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The national focus on school crime and safety continues to be of paramount importance. During the past year, overall levels of crime in school decreased, and students seem to feel more safe in school than they did in the last few years. Yet, violence and theft still mar the school experiences of many students and challenge parents, teachers, and school officials to respond.
Continued progress in improving the safety of our children entrusted to schools relies on having accurate information about the nature, extent, and scope of the problem. This report is intended to provide information that will assist in developing policies and/or programs to prevent and cope with violence and crime in schools.
This is the third edition of Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics. The report provides detailed statistical information to inform the nation on the current nature of crime in schools, and is a companion document to the Annual Report on School Safety: 2000. The Annual Report is a joint publication of the Departments of Education and Justice that provides an overview of the nature and scope of school crime and describes actions schools and communities can take to address this critical issue. The two reports respond to a 1998 request by President Clinton for an annual report card on school violence.
This edition of Indicators contains the most recent available data on school crime and safety drawn from a number of statistical series supported by the federal government. These data include results from a study of violent deaths in school, sponsored by the Department of Education and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the 1999 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which is conducted by the Census Bureau on behalf of our agencies.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics continue to work towards providing more timely and complete data on the issue of school-related violence and safety. Not only is this report available on the Internet in its entirety, but individual indicators are updated there throughout the year as new data become available. The inclusion of detailed data from the full calendar year 1999 NCVS (this edition includes only selected statistics from January-June 1999) and from a new survey of school administrators on crime and victimization in the schools is planned for next year's edition of Indicators.
Gary Phillips, Ph.D.
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