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Feb 22, 2024 · WASHINGTON — Living in neighborhoods with high levels of violence can affect children’s development by changing the way that a part of the brain detects and responds to potential threats, potentially leading to poorer mental health and other negative outcomes, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
Jul 3, 2018 · Researchers have shown — and teachers know — that schoolchildren exposed to neighborhood violence can have a tougher time learning, experiencing more stress and depression than their peers...
- Understanding The Scope of Violent Crime in Schools
- Synthesizing The Findings
- NIJ’s School Shooting Database
- Improving Federal School Safety Data Collections
- Moving Forward
Following is a review of data and current trends in school crime and violence. The data sets included in this review — though by no means an exhaustive list — are perhaps the most widely used and well-known national data sources for violence in schools.
The data sources examined above indicate that students are not often the victims of violent and serious violent crime in schools. These trends have been decreasing since 2001. Physical bullying victimization has also been on a downward trend since 2009-2010. Schools have reported fewer incidents of violent crime and serious violent crime, and these...
To help fill this knowledge gap, NIJ funded a project through its Comprehensive School Safety Initiative to create an open-source database that includes all publicly known school shootings resulting in at least one firearm death or injury that occurred on school grounds in the United States from January 1, 1990, to December 31, 2016. Joshua Freilic...
Recently, the Office of Management and Budget — the federal agency that implements the administration’s policy, budget, management, and regulatory objectives — released the “Federal Data Strategy – A Framework for Consistency.”This Federal Data Strategy (FDS) uses and manages federal data to best serve the public while getting optimal use from the ...
The review of these major data sets illuminates several interesting findings about the nature and extent of violent crime in schools. For example, physical bullying and threats to students have decreased over the last decades, and overall violent crime in schools has also decreased steadily, but there has been an increase in the number of multiple-...
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School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). We would also like to offer our gratitude to the school crime and safety experts who helped inform the development of the 2019–20 SSOCS questionnaire. Finally, the authors and project officer would like to thank all of the schools and school staff who responded to the 2019–20 SSOCS. This
Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools: Findings From the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2021–22 (NCES 2024-043). U.S. Department of Education.
Feb 22, 2024 · Living in neighborhoods with high levels of violence can affect children’s development by changing the way that a part of the brain detects and responds to potential threats, which could lead to poorer mental health and other negative outcomes.
Jun 15, 2018 · More than half of children and adolescents living in cities have experienced some form of community violence—acts of disturbance or crime, such as drug use, beatings, shootings, stabbings and...
