Violence in Schools
- Closer Look at Drug and Violence Prevention Efforts in American Schools: Report on the Study on School Violence and Prevention
U.S. Department of Education, 2002
This second of three reports from the Study on School Violence and Prevention, is an intensive and detailed examination on a limited number of schools covering the extent of problem behavior in schools, efforts used by schools to prevent problem behavior and the quality of their implementation, and planning processes used for prevention activities and the use of information.
- Community Outreach Through Police in Schools
Office for Victims of Crime, 2003
This document describes the Community Outreach through Police in Schools Program, which is a short-term, prevention-oriented, school-based group intervention that brings together police officers and children as group co-leaders to provide weekly sessions for middle school students at risk of being exposed to violence.
- Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools: An Action Guide
U.S. Department of Education and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1996
This manual presents background information on school safety and action steps for use by schools, parents, students, and community and business groups in developing a strategy to ensure safe schools.
- Creating Safe Schools: A Comprehensive Approach
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2001
This discussion of approaches to enhancing school safety emphasizes the need for broad-based efforts on the part of the entire community, including educators, students, parents, law enforcement agencies, businesses, and faith-based organizations and discusses 10 essential components of safe school planning.
- Crime in the Schools: Reducing Conflict With Student Problem Solving
National Institute of Justice, 1999
This study describes and assesses a student-based problem-solving model for reducing crime in the Nation's schools.
- Evaluation of Violence Prevention Programs in Middle Schools
National Institute of Justice, 1995
A 16-month evaluation compared the separate and combined impact of the following New York City middle school violence prevention programs from February 1993 to June 1994: (1) Project S.T.O.P. (Schools Teaching Options for Peace), a traditional conflict resolution program, which included a curriculum and peer mediation; and (2) the Safe Harbor Program, which included a 20-session curriculum, a counseling component, and a schoolwide anti-violence campaign.
- Families and Schools Together: Building Relationships
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1999
Using parent-professional collaborative teams, the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program sponsored by OJJDP systematically reaches out to entire families and organizes multifamily groups to increase parent involvement with at-risk youth.
- Healing the Hate: A National Hate Crime Prevention Curriculum for Middle Schools
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1997
Designed for middle-school teachers and other professionals who work with youth, this curriculum addresses the extent of hate crime in America and instructs youth in strategies that are proven effective in reducing hate crimes among youth.
- Preventing School Violence: Plenary Papers of the 1999 Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation--Enhancing Policy and Practice through Research, Volume 2
National Institute of Justice, 2000
Three plenary papers of the 1999 Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation -- Enhancing Policy and Practice Through Research focus on what is being done and what can be done to prevent violence in schools.
- Safe Harbor: A School-Based Victim Assistance/Violence Prevention Program
Office for Victims of Crime, 2003
After describing Safe Harbor, a promising program that addresses both violence prevention and victim assistance in school settings, this bulletin discusses the demographic and implementation differences in the school sites that are replicating the program and reviews evaluations of the program's effectiveness.
- Safe School Initiative: An Interim Report on the Prevention of Targeted Violence in Schools
U.S. Secret Service, 2000
This report presents preliminary findings from the U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center's (NTAC's) analysis of the behavior and thinking of more than 30 school shooters.
- School and Community Interventions to Prevent Serious and Violent Offending
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1999
The Study Group on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders concludes that timely comprehensive school-based and community-based interventions hold the greatest potential for preventing serious violent juvenile offending.
- School Crime Patterns: A National Profile of U.S. Public High Schools Using Rates of Crime Reported to Police: Report on the Study on School Violence and Prevention
U.S. Department of Education, 2002
In this third of three reports from the Study on School Violence and Prevention, the focus was on survey results reflecting the proportion of high schools that had high rates of violence, the characteristics of high schools with high rates of violent crime, and the methods used to control disorder related to the level of violence.
- School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injuries and Violence
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2001
This report summarizes school health recommendations for preventing unintentional injury, violence, and suicide among young persons.
- Toward Safe and Orderly Schools—The National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools
National Institute of Justice, 2004
This report presents the findings from a national, federally funded study which surveyed school staff and students on school safety and the programs used to prevent problem behavior and promote a safe school environment.
- Wide Scope, Questionable Quality: Drug and Violence Prevention Efforts in American Schools, Report on the Study on School Violence and Prevention
U.S. Department of Education, 2002
In this first of three reports from the Study on School Violence and Prevention, a national examination is conducted on the status of school safety and what schools are doing to promote safety and prevent problem behavior.
- Wide Scope, Questionable Quality: Three Reports from the Study on School Violence and Prevention (Executive Summary)
U.S. Department of Education, 2002
This report presents a summary of findings from a three-part Study on School Violence and Prevention conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and National Institute of Justice investigating the extent of problem behavior in schools across the United States and various aspects of delinquency prevention efforts and strategies in schools.