Web Directory

» Early Warning, Timely Response
   A Guide to Safe Schools offers research-based practices designed to assist school communities identify these warning signs early and develop prevention, intervention and crisis response plans.
   http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/earlywrn.html

» Fact Sheet - Colorado School Shooting
   Violence Policy Center Press Release - (04/20/99) - Colorado Gun Laws and Statistics on Teenagers and Guns in Colorado
   http://www.vpc.org/press/9904col.htm

» Gun Violence in Schools
   American Bar Association policy, background report, Congressional correspondence and facts about gun violence in schools.
   http://www.abanet.org/gunviol/factsaboutgunviolence/schools.shtml

» Hatred in the Hallways
   Article on violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students in U.S.
   http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/uslgbt/

» High School Youths, Weapons, and Violence: A National Survey
   NIJ Research in Brief examines the extent to which a national sample of male high school sophomores and juniors was involved in, or otherwise affected by, firearm-related activity.
   http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/172857.txt

» Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2000
   Produced by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing education data.
   http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/crime2000/

» Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
   A report to the US Congress. Chapter 5 deals with school-based crime prevention. Published in July, 1998 by the National Institute of Justice Research.
   http://www.ncjrs.gov/works/

» Violence & Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996-97
   National Center for Education Statistics study indicating that more than half of schools surveyed reported criminal incidents in 1996-97.
   http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=98030

» Violence Among Middle School and High School Students
   Analysis and Implications for Prevention. Violent incidents among at-risk middle school and high school students, which often escalate from seemingly trivial events.
   http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/166363.txt