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Amber Wynn – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
State law (Revised Code of Washington [RCW] 28A.320.130) requires the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to annually report to the Legislature the number of incidents in violation of RCW 9.41.280, which involves the possession of weapons on school premises, transportation systems, or in areas of facilities while being used…
Descriptors: Schools, Weapons, Crime, Public Schools
Brent R. Klein; Joshua D. Freilich; Steven M. Chermak – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2023
The American School Shooting Study (TASSS) is an ongoing mixed-method project funded by the National Institute of Justice to catalog US school shootings. It has amassed data based on open sources and other public materials dating back to 1990. This brief presents new insights from TASSS, diving deeper into the database's potential to examine the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Weapons, School Violence, Crime
Salvatore Robert D'Angelo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
My dissertation studies the relationship between counseling and violence within U.S. schools. Much of the research on school security and school safety tends to lean heavily on routine activities theory and other opportunity theories, which limits the study of other factors critically relevant to this topic such as school climate. This…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Counseling, Educational Environment, School Violence
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
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2022
As the 2021-22 academic year came to a close, the United States was rocked by the news of another school mass shooting, this time at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen fourth-grade students and two of their teachers were killed when an 18-year-old former student entered the school through an unlocked door, made his way to his former…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Violence, Weapons, Student Behavior
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
Irwin, Véronique; Wang, Ke; Cui, Jiashan; Thompson, Alexandra – National Center for Education Statistics, 2023
This is the 25th edition of Indicators of School Crime and Safety. This report provides summary statistics to inform the nation about current aspects of crime and safety in schools. This report does so by highlighting selected findings from 23 indicators on various school crime and safety topics. By synthesizing findings in this way, the report…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, Elementary Secondary Education, Violence
E. Thomsen; M. Henderson; A. Moore; N. Price; M. W. McGarrah – National Center for Education Statistics, 2024
The tables in this report provide national-level estimates of the extent to which students ages 12-18 enrolled in grades 6-12 experience bullying during school. The tables show how bullying victimization varies by student and school characteristics such as sex, race/ethnicity, grade, household income, region, school locale, school enrollment size,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Grade 6, Grade 7
Sorensen, Lucy C.; Shen, Yinzhi; Bushway, Shawn D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
The "defund the police" movement has recently called for the removal of police--or school resource officers (SROs)--from schools. This call is driven by concerns that SROs may heighten student contact with criminal justice or lead to disproportionately harsh disciplinary consequences. This study uses linked disciplinary, academic,…
Descriptors: School Safety, Police School Relationship, Discipline, Middle Schools
School Resource Officers' Roles Differ in the Prediction of Nonviolent and Serious Violent Incidents
Stevens, Tara; Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Jackson, Jesseca – School Psychology Review, 2021
School resource officers' (SROs) presence (e.g., engagement in patrol, carrying firearms, etc.) and prevention (e.g., mentoring, teaching) roles have not been distinguished in investigations of SROs' association with student outcomes. A model predicting nonviolent incidents and serious violent incidents reported to police from SRO presence and…
Descriptors: Police School Relationship, Police, Role, Violence
Schuck, Amie M. – Research in Higher Education, 2017
The goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of crime and discipline on graduation rates in higher education. Using national data on more than 1250 public and private non-profit institutions that were drawn from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the results reveal that more violence on and around campus is associated with…
Descriptors: Crime, Discipline, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate
Zhang, Naijian, Ed.; McCluskey-Titus, Phyllis, Ed.; Cawthon, Tony W., Ed. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2022
The purpose of "Theory of College Student Development" is to provide readers with new theoretical knowledge or a reminder of the foundational and evolving theories that professionals can utilize for understanding and making sense of students' behavior. Its primary focus is on the integration of knowledge, skills, and application of such…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Learning Theories, College Students, Student Development
Wallace, Lacey N. – Journal of College Student Development, 2019
I examined which students view campus gun carrying as socially beneficial, how these views vary based on social standing among peers, and to what extent students believe their own gun carrying behavior influences others. Data were drawn from a nationwide web survey of 520 US college students. Results indicate that males and those attending school…
Descriptors: Weapons, Student Attitudes, Campuses, Peer Relationship
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
In addition to the potential loss of life, school shootings can evoke feelings of profound fear and anxiety that disturb a community's sense of safety and security. Questions have been raised about whether schools' approaches to addressing student behavior are a factor in school shootings. These approaches include discipline that removes the…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Elementary Secondary Education, School Safety
Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education, 2019
The 2015-16 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a survey of public schools and school districts in the United States. The CRDC measures student access to courses, programs, staff, and resources that impact education equity and opportunity for students. The CRDC has long provided critical information used by the Department of Education's Office…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Safety, Public Schools, Civil Rights