More resources on school violence

This resource guide provides journalists with links to government databases and reports on school violence, including juvenile justice data, education statistics, and school crime indicators from multiple perspectives.

More resources on school violence:

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (www.ncjrs.org/ojjhome.htm) – Here you can access reports generated by the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, which collects, stores, and analyzes data about young people referred to U.S. courts for delinquency and status offenses. Their data include demographic information about the juveniles, the reasons for their referral to court and the court's response.

A second NCJRS site (www.ncjrs.org/jjvict.htm) offers a long list of available reports and links to other sites regarding juvenile justice, including school violence.

National Center for Education Statistics (www.nces.ed.gov) includes reports and statistics, such as:

• Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools, 1996-1997 (released March 1998)

• Digest of Education Statistics, 1998, also includes some stats on school violence.

Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse (www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/iscs98.htm) • Includes the Annual Report on School Safety 1998, which has national school crime data, successful strategies to reduce school violence and a local safety checklist for parents.

• Also includes Indicators of School Crime and Safety 1998, which presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals and the general population using a comprehensive array of surveys as sources.