This is the 23rd edition of the Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a joint publication of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 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 post-secondary institutions. Indicator 2, Incidence of Victimization at School and Away From School, includes data from BJS?s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
Data sources include the 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.
The Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2020 (NCJ 300772) was written by V?ronique Irwin of the National Center for Education Statistics; Ke Wang, Jiashan Cui, and Jizhi Zhang of the American Institutes for Research; and BJS Statistician Alexandra Thompson. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS?s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at bjs.ojp.gov. The report is also available online at https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2021/2021092.pdf. All 22 indicators are available at https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe.
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. Doris J. James is the acting director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?BJS online.
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