Students' Reports of School Crime: 1989 and 1995

• NCJ Number: 169607
• Date Published: April 1998
• Author(s): K A Chandler; C D Chapman; M R Rand; B M Taylor
• Length: 55 pages
• Agencies: BJS
• Publication Type: Statistics

Annotation

School crime was analyzed as part of the National Crime Victimization Survey in 1989 and 1995, specifically the extent to which students between 12 and 19 years of age experienced violent crime or property theft at school and their perceptions of the presence of guns, gangs, and illegal drugs at school.

Abstract

This report is the first focusing on data collected in the 1995 School Crime Supplement (SCS), an enhancement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). It compares findings from the 1989 and 1995 SCS on student reports of victimization, drug availability, street gang presence, and gun presence at school. In each year, the SCS was administered to about 10,000 persons age 12 through 19 currently attending school. This joint BJS and National Center for Education Statistics report presents the first findings from the 1995 supplement, discussing relationships among the the variables examined, such as how drug availability, street gang presence, and gun presence are related to student reports of being victimized at school.