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Graphs and Stats


The following web sites provide statistical information about crime rates on Violence in the
Schools. The questions that follow can be used as a classroom group exercise or as an individual student research activity. Students can respond to each questions in the scrollable text field windows.Ê The page can be printed or emailed to the instructor.

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Violence in Schools

Web Sites:

Victimization statistics for young victims of serious and violent crimes at school, away from school, from 1992-1996

URL: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/html/qa115.html

Percentage of students who were threatened or injured with a weapon on school property, or involved in a physical fight (See Table 1)

URL: http://www.colorado.edu/UCB/Research/cspv/safeschools/index.html

Percentage of students who felt unsafe to go to school (See Table 3)

URL: http://www.colorado.edu/UCB/Research/cspv/safeschools/index.html

Questions:

1. When do students face more risk of being victims of violent crime, away from school or at school?

2. Describe the gender differences that characterize victims of violent crimes at school.

3. Compare the statistics on crime at school in a state of your choosing to the national statistics, using Safe Communities, Safe Schools web site: http://www.colorado.edu/UCB/Research/cspv/safeschools/index.html

4. Describe if, and how the statistics in the state you have chosen differ. In your opinion, are these differences significant? What factors do you believe may account for the differences?

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