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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.

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.

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.

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.

Fact Sheet - Colorado School Shooting
Violence Policy Center Press Release - (04/20/99) - Colorado Gun Laws and Statistics on Teenagers and Guns in Colorado

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.

Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 1998
A collaborative report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics which examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school.

Gun Violence in Schools
American Bar Association policy, background report, Congressional correspondence and facts about gun violence in schools.

Preventing and Coping with School Violence
A resource manual for Washington school employees. Covers topics such as handling violence through instruction, disciplinary options, counseling, community action, disciplining students and using the law to oppose school violence.

National School Safety Center
Includes reports and statistics, resources, about school crime and violence.