For students to succeed, their educational environment must be safe, secure and orderly. To this end, schools must cultivate a climate of respect, free of disruption, drugs, violence and weapons.
On this page, find links to articles, awards, events, publications, and multimedia related to school crime and safety.
Publications
- Associations between a technical assistance model to build school organizational capacity and improvements in student perceptions of school climate
- Population and Subgroup Differences in the Prevalence and Predictors of Campus Sexual Assault to Inform Preventive Interventions
- Media Coverage of School Shootings: A Distortion Analysis of Incident and Perpetrator Characteristics
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Awards
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The first step in knowing what to do is knowing what works … and what hasn’t.
Comprehensive School Safety Initiative
The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative is a research-focused initiative that brings together the nation’s best minds to increase the safety of schools nationwide.