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 The
National School Safety Center's Report on School Associated
Violent Deaths
An in-house Report from the National School Safety Center
(NSSC), June 2003
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CONTACT:
National School
Safety Center (NSSC)
Dr. Ronald D.
Stephens, Executive Director
141 Duesenberg
Drive, Suite 11
Westlake
Village, CA 91362
Ph: 805/373-9977
Fax:
805/373-9277
Internet: www.nssc1.org
E-mail: info@nssc1.org
DEFINITION:
A school-associated violent death is any homicide, suicide,
or weapons-related violent death in the United States in which
the fatal injury occurred:
1) on the property of a functioning public, private or parochial
elementary or secondary school, Kindergarten through grade 12,
(including alternative schools);
2) on the way to or from regular sessions at such a school;
3) while person was attending or was on the way to or from an
official school-sponsored event;
4) as an obvious direct result of school incident/s, function/s
or activities, whether on or off school bus/vehicle or school
property.
* Note: Not a scientific survey. Since information is taken from
newspaper clipping services, it is possible that not all such
clippings have reached the NSSC.
SCOPE:
Newspaper accounts, on which NSSC bases this report,
frequently do not list names and ages of those who are charged
with the deaths of others. Such omissions were in some cases
because the person charged was a minor. In some instances,
persons were killed in drive-by shootings, gang encounters or
during melees in which the killer was not identified, and the
killers were either never apprehended or were caught days or
months after the crime was first reported. As a result, more is
known about victims than about perpetrators and therefore
information in this report relates more to victims than to
perpetrators.
DATES:
This report covers all reported school associated violent
deaths that the National School Safety Center knows of from the
1992-1993 School year to present. For purposes of this
study, the new school year begins on August 1st.
MISSING INFORMATION:
The National School Safety Center has worked hard to make
this study as accurate as possible. If you are aware of school
associated violent deaths that are not reported in the study
please contact us at the above address. Please include articles
or references to confirm the accuracy of the account.
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