Which was created through the department of education and the justice department. Among some numbers of the report are that the overall school crime rates declined between 93 and 97 from 155 school related crimes per 1000 students ages 12-18 to around 102 crimes in 97. The number of multiple homicides in schools though did increase with the wave a school shootings in the past few years. In 1997 serious violent crime and theft rates were down from 93 both at and away from school. Students were more likely to be victims of violent crimes away from school 24 per 1000, than students in school or traveling to or from school 8 per 1000. Even though theft was down it still accounted for 61% of all crimes against students in 1997, most crimes against teachers were also theft. The number of expulsion's due to bring a firearm to school declined from 5,724 in 96-97 to 3,930 in 97-98. But school violence is not just in America, while most 15 year olds in several countries said they had not been in a physical fight or had carried weapon for self defense in the past year, the proportion who "always felt safe in school" ranged from 50 percent in Norway to only 10 percent in the Czech republic. While in the US Around 40 percent of 15 year old student felt safe always.
Many schools see hate crimes as a rising issue, but many reports on hate crimes are often underreported, and because states definitions of hate crime vary. In a recent report though 15% of 11,13,and 15 year olds have been bullied because of their race or religion and more than 30% have had sexual jokes, comments or gestures directed at them. (Ed and DOJ a trying to get better data on hate crimes now). There is also a Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative grants being given. The grant requires comprehensive, integrated community wide plans to address school safety developed jointly by local school districts, law enforcement and mental health authorities.
