BJS and NCES release Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2019

This is the 22^nd edition of Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a joint publication of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It provides official estimates of school crime and safety from a variety of data sources, including national surveys of students, teachers, principals, and postsecondary institutions.

Data sources include the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the School Crime Supplement to the NCVS, the School-Associated Violent Death Surveillance System, the School Survey on Crime and Safety, the Schools and Staffing Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, and the Campus Safety and Security Survey.

Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2019 (NCJ 254485) was written by Ke Wang, Yongqiu Chen, and Jizhi Zhang of the American Institutes for Research, and BJS Statistician Barbara A. Oudekerk. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS?s statistical publications and programs are available at www.bjs.gov.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Jeffrey H. Anderson is the director.

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