DOJ News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics has released Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2019.

This report is the 22nd in a series of annual publications produced jointly by BJS and NCES.

It provides official estimates of school crime and safety from a variety of data sources, including national surveys of students, teachers, principals and post-secondary institutions.

TITLE: Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2019 (NCJ 254485)

AUTHOR: Ke Wang, American Institutes for Research, NCES

Yongqiu Chen, American Institutes for Research, NCES

Jizhi Zhang, American Institutes for Research, NCES

Barbara A. Oudekerk, Bureau of Justice Statistics

WHERE: www.bjs.gov

About the Bureau of Justice Statistics

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Jeffrey H. Anderson is the director.