NIJ: Research and Evaluation on School Safety

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Through its Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI), the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is building a portfolio of research and evaluation on a broad range of school safety topics. NIJ offices focusing on the social sciences and on science and technology contribute to this initiative. This panel will introduce the initiative and provide presentations on progress and results of the national Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in Schools (a Bureau of Justice Statistics effort), the creation of a database on completed and averted attacks on schools, and an assessment of the use of technology to prevent and respond to school violence. The discussant brings over three decades of experience as a national leader on school safety and will help to illuminate the relationship between federal programs, policies, and research and school safety at the local level.

Sub Unit

• Area IX: Juvenile Crime and the Justice System / 60: Schools, School Violence, and Bullying

Individual Presentations

• The Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in Schools - Elizabeth Davis, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice

• The National Database of Completed and Averted Attacks on Schools - Frank Straub, Police Foundation

• Assessing How Technology is Used to Prevent and Respond to School Violence - William Ford, National Institute of Justice

Chair

• Phelan Wyrick, National Institute of Justice

Discussant

• William Modzeleski, U.S. Department of Education (retired)