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Fort Worth schools weren’t immune from that trend: The number of fights and student-on-student assaults in Fort Worth ISD more than tripled after the end of school shutdowns, climbing from 1,869 ...
In the 2021-2022 school year, there were more than 22,000 threats made against K-12 schools in 60 of the state’s 67 school districts, according to a report from the University of Virginia Youth ...
School shootings have been on the rise recently, but the scale of carnage Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, is by far the worst since the 2018 attack at Stoneman Douglas High ...
Research is mainly focused on the causes of juvenile delinquency and which strategies have successfully diminished crime rates among the youth. Though the causes are debated and controversial, much of the debate revolves around the punishment and rehabilitation of juveniles in a youth detention center or elsewhere.
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens under the age of 20 in the United States. [1] [failed verification – see discussion] Since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, there have been 417 cases of gun violence in schools as of September 2024. [2]
According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, school violence is a serious problem. [1] [2] In 2007, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available, a nationwide survey, [3] conducted biennially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and involving representative samples of U.S. high school students, found that 5.9% of students carried a weapon (e ...
There have been over 70 incidents of gunfire on K-12 school campuses since the beginning of August. Several factors contributing to rising violence, misbehavior in schools Skip to main content
Some scholars have found an increase in arrests for youth and have concluded that this may reflect more aggressive criminal justice and zero-tolerance policies rather than changes in youth behavior. [13] Youth violence rates in the United States have dropped to approximately 12% of peak rates in 1993 according to official US government ...