Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools -- Findings From the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2007–08 (NCES 2009-326)

This First Look report uses data from the 2007–08 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) to examine a range of issues dealing with school crime and safety, such as the frequency of school crime and violence, disciplinary actions, and school practices related to the prevention and reduction of crime and safety. SSOCS is the primary source of school-level data on crime and safety for NCES. Since 1999, it has been administered four times to the principals of nationally representative samples of public primary, middle, high, and combined schools.