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Education Commission of the States, 2021
Sometimes school and district personnel must involve law enforcement in disciplinary actions, which may include reporting specific offenses or directing school resource officers to address certain infractions. This data point examines when state statute or regulation requires schools to involve law enforcement agencies and personnel and for which…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Police, School Safety
Brown, Tiffany Q. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between student behavior (drug, liquor, or weapons violations) and community characteristics (poverty and population) on crime that occurs across 90 four-year historically Black college and university (HBCU) campuses. The gap in the literature shows little to no research to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Characteristics, Black Colleges, Community Characteristics
Fisher, Bonnie S., Ed.; Sloan, John J., III, Ed. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2022
This new edition of "Campus Crime" shares with readers the advancements that have been made in understanding campus crime. Across the three sections of the book, chapters review changes while also addressing current -- and even future -- crime and security issues confronting institutions of higher education. Some of these chapters…
Descriptors: Crime, Higher Education, Victims of Crime, Sexual Abuse
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Diliberti, Melissa; Jackson, Michael; Correa, Samuel; Padgett, Zoe – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
Using data from the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), this report presents findings both on crime and violence in U.S. public schools and on the practices and programs schools have implemented to promote school safety. SSOCS collects information from public school principals about the prevalence of violent and serious violent crimes…
Descriptors: School Surveys, Crime, School Safety, Violence
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Burns, Erin; Mann, Rebecca; Yanez, Christina – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The tables in this report include data from the 2019 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). These tables show the extent to which students, ages 12 through 18, with different characteristics report being bullied, including estimates by student sex, race/ethnicity, grade, and household income. The U.S.…
Descriptors: Bullying, Crime, Victims, Comparative Analysis
DeAngelis, Corey A.; Lueken, Martin F. – EdChoice, 2019
Are private schools safer than public schools? Do they use the same security procedures? Do they suspend or expel students at a higher rate? Do private schools that participate in school choice programs report the same safety issues as private schools that do not participate in school choice programs? How does charter school safety compare to…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Safety, School Choice, Charter Schools
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Ritter, Gary W.; Anderson, Kaitlin P. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2018
Mounting evidence indicates that students of color are more likely than their white peers to receive exclusionary discipline (out-of-school suspensions and expulsions), but alleviating these disparities requires an understanding of what drives them. In this study, we use seven years of student- and infraction-level data from every public school in…
Descriptors: Discipline, Minority Group Students, White Students, Suspension
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Zhang, Anlan; Wang, Ke; Zhang, Jizhi; Oudekerk, Barbara A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
A joint effort by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in schools and colleges. This report presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources--the National Crime…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, National Surveys, School Surveys, Crime
Stelling, Laura; Looby, Karen; Pazera, Carol – Online Submission, 2015
Every year, the Austin Independent School District (AISD) administers the Student Substance Use and Safety Survey to a random, representative sample of middle and high school students. The survey tracks student knowledge, attitudes, and behavior over time. These results are from the 2014-2015 school year.
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Drug Use, Drinking
Gambrill, Chris – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research in the field of out-of-school suspension and expulsion in K-12 public schools is limited when focusing on violence, due process, weapons, drugs and alcohol, and search and seizure. Understanding the role of an administrator when dealing with out-of-school suspension an expulsion led the researcher to develop the following question: What…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Expulsion, Suspension, Elementary Secondary Education
Townsend, Megan – Wake County Public School System, 2014
The 2013 North Carolina Youth Risk Behavior Survey (NCYRBS) was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and adapted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) to monitor the health-risk behaviors and to measure progress toward achieving Healthy North Carolina 2020 objectives. The survey, administered…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, State Surveys, Personality Measures
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Hamilton, Melissa; Worthen, Meredith G. F. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Domestic violence arrests have been historically focused on protecting women and children from abusive men. Arrest patterns continue to reflect this bias with more men arrested for domestic violence compared to women. Such potential gender variations in arrest patterns pave the way to the investigation of disparities by sex of the offender in…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Police, Males
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Robers, Simone; Kemp, Jana; Rathbun, Amy; Morgan, Rachel E. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
"Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2013" provides the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety. The information presented in this report is intended to serve as a reference for policymakers and practitioners so that they can develop effective programs and policies aimed at violence and school crime prevention.…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, Violence, Death
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White, Michael D.; Ready, Justin – Crime & Delinquency, 2010
Despite the Taser's increasing popularity among police agencies, questions have been raised concerning the weapon's use and effectiveness as well as its potential to cause serious injury or death. This article examines all Taser deployments by the New York City Police Department from 2002 to 2005 (N = 375) and uses two multivariate…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Violence, Research Methodology, Police
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Robers, Simone; Zhang, Jijun; Truman, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
This report is the fourteenth in a series of annual publications produced jointly by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences (IES), in the U.S. Department of Education, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the U.S. Department of Justice. This report presents the most recent data available on…
Descriptors: School Safety, Crime, Violence, Death
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