School Safety

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), July 2005. This discussion guide and the companion 20-minute video are designed to foster a greater understanding of the impact of crime and violence on teens and the obstacles teens face in seeking help. The video features two innovative programs that have been effective in reaching and responding to teen victims.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), July 2005. The discussion guide and the companion 20-minute video are designed to foster a greater understanding of the impact of crime and violence on teens and the obstacles teens face in seeking help. The video features two innovative programs that have been effective in reaching and responding to teen victims through the use of peer leadership, in-school support groups, one-on-one counseling, and hotlines.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), May 2006. As the use of computers in our society has increased, so too has the issue of Internet child pornography crimes. Therefore, it is important that law enforcement agencies develop strategies for dealing with this problem. This problem-oriented guide for police describes the problem and reviews the factors that increase the risks of Internet child pornography. It then identifies a series of questions that may assist in the analysis of the problem and reviews responses based on evaluative research and police practice.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), September 2002. This COPS Innovations piece highlights community policing approaches to developing partnerships with youth. Three youth-focused programs funded by the COPS Office serve as examples of partnerships that law enforcement, schools, and community organizations can form to address issues of juvenile crime and victimization.

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National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). This Fact Sheet defines dating violence, controlling behavior, verbal and emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. Provides statistics on dating violence, where to get help, how to help oneself and others. For more information, visit the NCVC website at www.ncvc.org.

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National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). This Fact Sheet tells teenagers what they can do to help a friend who is the victim of a crime, how to recognize a victim through behavior, things to say and not say, reporting the crime, and secondary victimization. For more information, NCVC website at www.ncvc.org.

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National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). This Fact Sheet helps parents identify behaviors signaling that a teenager has been a victim of a crime, what to do to help, things to say and not say, options, and secondary victimization. For more information, visit the NCVC website at www.ncvc.org.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), March 2006. Police encounter juveniles for many reasons related to their running away from home. This guide begins by describing the problem of juvenile runaways and reviewing its risk factors. It then identifies a series of questions to help law enforcement analyze their local juvenile runaway problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and what is known about them from evaluative research and police practice.

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Virginia Regional Community Policing Institute, 2003. An interactive CD, that will help parents, educators, and other concerned adults become informed about the Internet and online predators.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), July 2006. Intended as a reference for those who are interested in implementing a problem-solving approach, this guide contains information and insights into the process. It will take the reader step by step through solving problems, offer examples of problem-solving from the field, and provide links to additional resources.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), April 2005. This guide, one of the Problem-Solving Tools Series, summarizes knowledge about information gathering and analysis techniques that might assist police at any of the four main stages of a problem-oriented project: scanning, analysis, response, and assessment. This tool takes the mystery out of conducting research on problems by helping the user to define their problem, use technology to conduct Internet searches, get advice from experts, visit libraries, and evaluate their primary sources of information. The guide offers helpful hints to understanding and identifying responses to problems based on the research gathered.

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National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). This Fact Sheet describes sexual assault in language that young children can understand, things a child should not let adults and older children do to them, how to prevent being abducted, and what to do if abducted. Also describes safety measures when alone at home and gun safety. For more information, visit the NCVC website at www.ncvc.org.

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National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). This Fact Sheet, written in easily understandable language, presents information on what a child should know if he or she is sexually assaulted, what adults should not do to a child, how to prevent being abducted. Also covered is safety when home alone and gun safety. Another section provides child sexual abuse information for middle school students, what it is, who does it, how to stop it, and things a child should know if he or she is sexually assaulted. For more information, visit the NCVC website at www.ncvc.org.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), October 2006. The COPS Office funded the School-Based Partnerships (SBP) grant program for the purpose of partnering law enforcement agencies with schools to address crime and disorder problems in and around middle and high schools. In Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999, the COPS Office awarded 275 law enforcement agencies more than $30 million to partner with school entities to address crime and disorder in and around schools. These law enforcement agencies were required to attend training in problem-analysis and problem-solving methods, specifically the SARA Model, to better understand the causes of identified problems, apply analysis-driven responses, and evaluate their efforts. This report focuses on three SBP sites and their use of the SARA problem-solving process to address specific issues in their schools: students and teachers feeling threatened, illegal drug sales, and truancy.

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National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC). This online resource outlines many aspects of school crime such as firearms, gangs, and school safety policies. This resource also includes references and a bibliography.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), August 2005. The term school vandalism refers to willful or malicious damage to school grounds and buildings or furnishings and equipment. This guide describes the problem and reviews the risk factors of school vandalism and break-ins. It also reviews the associated problems of school burglaries and arson. The guide then identifies a series of questions to help law enforcement analyze their local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem, and what is known about them from evaluative research and police practice.

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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), August 2006. This guide provides law enforcement practitioners with a resource for conducting problem analysis. It summarizes many challenges of the analysis phase of the problem-solving process. This book builds on the foundation presented in Problem-Solving Tips: A Guide to Reducing Crime and Disorder Through Problem-Solving Partnerships, and complements the Problem-Oriented Guides for Police Series. The guide also identifies tools for analysis and proposes tips for effectively using each tool.

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