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1 results foundAuthor: Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory Title: A Comprehensive Report on School Safety Technology Summary: According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the total victimization rate at schools has declined 82% over the past two decades, from 181 victimizations per 1000 students in 1992 to 33 victimizations per 1000 students in 2014. The NCES also indicates that in 2013, fewer than 1.5% of students ages 12 to 18 reported violent or serious violent victimization at school during the previous 6 months.1 Although schools are generally safe in the United States, rare incidents of extreme violence at schools in the United States and abroad garner public and political scrutiny and a call to assess ways to effectively secure classrooms and campuses. Incidents like those at Columbine High School in 1999 and Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, as well as other instances of crime and violence in schools, have sparked a rapid increase in the use of technology to ensure the safety and security of PreKindergarten (Pre-K), elementary, middle, and high schools. In 2014, the U.S. Congress appropriated $75 million to improve school safety and allotted targeted funding to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ). In response, NIJ launched the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative to conduct scientific research and evidence-based studies that build knowledge of effective means to increase school safety nationwide. NIJ’s research interests included the impact of embedding law enforcement professionals or other security personnel in schools, the effects of school discipline policies, the impact of threat assessment approaches currently being used in schools, the approaches for improving school climate and culture, and the impact of school safety technologies and their impact on students’ perception of safety. In addition, NIJ specifically allocated funding to enhance data collection about school safety and to conduct two assessments of technology and school safety—this effort focusing on how technology is used today to prevent violence in schools and a separate effort assessing technology needs of the future.2 Under cooperative agreement, NIJ tasked the National Criminal Justice Technology Research, Test and Evaluation (RT&E) Center at Johns Hopkins University to undertake a comprehensive assessment of how technology is currently used in the United States and in other countries to prevent and respond to criminal acts of violence in K-12 schools, both public and private. As part of the congressionally directed Comprehensive School Safety Initiative, the RT&E Center endeavored to accomplish the following objectives regarding school safety and security technologies: • Identify technologies currently being used in K-12 schools to prevent, respond to, and mitigate criminal acts of violence. • Identify how the technologies are being used (i.e., purpose, policy, and practice). • Identify what is known about the efficacy of those technologies. • Identify factors such as laws, policies, regulations, and costs that affect deployment and employment of technologies. • Provide reports and other information to NIJ for dissemination to the various constituents that play a role in safety and security in schools. The resulting report, entitled “A Comprehensive Review of School Safety Technologies,” is intended to be used by a range of audiences, including school administrators, security directors, principals, and others. It features four research components—a literature review, a technology review, case studies, and a legal review. It examines the technologies currently being used, how they are used, how those technologies were chosen, and how well they are working. By providing this context, school officials can make informed decisions about technology choices that can increase the safety of school children, faculty, and staff Details: Johns Hopkins University, 2016. 479p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 5, 2016 at: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/250274.pdf Year: 2016 Country: United States URL: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/250274.pdf Shelf Number: 140306 Keywords: School Crime School Security School Violence Security Surveillance Systems |