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With approximately 100 studies completing in recent years, NIJ has sought to aggregate and disseminate findings from these studies. Some projects studied the root causes and consequences of school violence, while others evaluated innovative school safety strategies. This dissemination effort is intended to assess what we have learned, help...
This webinar provided information on the NIJ FY 2024 Research and Evaluation on School Safety solicitation. In collaboration with BJA, this solicitation will seek applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects to fill knowledge gaps in two topical areas:
The Safe Schools Safe Communities violence prevention framework helps promote school readiness to implement evidence-based practices, but evidence of its effectiveness remains to be seen.
Researchers have created the first open-source catalog of U.S. school shootings to better understand the causes of school-related gun violence and identify intervention points.
A review of the most commonly cited sources of school safety data indicates that although crime and violence in schools have generally been decreasing for some time, multiple-victim homicide incidents have been increasing.
