A Comprehensive School Safety Framework: Report to the Committees on Appropriations

• NCJ Number: 255078
• Date Published: January 2020
• Length: 33 pages
• Agencies: NIJ
• Publication Type: Issue Overview

Annotation

This National Institute of Justice report is in response to Senate Report 115-275 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (P.L. 116-6) which requested modeling of and best practices for researching school violence.

Abstract

Research suggests that there is no single factor at the root of violence in schools. Rather, it suggests that there are multiple, potentially compounding factors at play. This Report to Congress describes a framework that the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) developed to address the many manifestations of violence in schools. The framework has three major components: physical safety, school climate, and student behavior. The framework aligns with the other school safety frameworks found in the research literature and the findings to date from NIJ's Comprehensive School Safety Initiative, which funded 100 projects in K-12 schools aimed at preventing school violence.