Skip navigation
If you are seeing this text, you may need to upgrade your browser to a more modern, standards-compliant version.
You can download the latest version of your favorite browser at the following links:
Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
A Federal resource for professionals, parents and youth working to prevent violence committed by and against young people.
Fact Sheets
Best Bets
- Highlights of the 2004 National Youth Gang Survey
This fact sheet summarizes findings from the National Youth Gang Survey for 2004 and reports data on the number of gangs, gang members, and gang-related homicides in larger cities, suburban counties, smaller cities, and rural counties. - Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2006
A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. - School Associated Violent Deaths
This article provides general information about school-associated violent deaths and provides answers six specific questions related to school-associated violent deaths and their prevention. - US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began studying home and recreational injuries in the early 1970's and violence prevention in 1983. From these early activities grew a national program to reduce injury, disability, death, and costs associated with injuries outside the workplace ...- US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics
The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), was first established on December 27, 1979 under the Justice Systems Improvement Act of 1979, Public Law 96-157 (the 1979 Amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Pu ...
External Resources
- Juveniles and the Death Penalty (PDF 181 KB)
This bulletin by the Department of Justice examines the history of capital punishment
and Supreme Court decisions related to its use with juveniles. The bulletin
documents profiles of those sentenced to death for crimes committed as juveniles
and notes the international movement toward abolishing this sanction.
Federal Partner: U.S. Department of Justice
- Firearm Injury and Death from Crime (PDF 80 KB)
This publication provides information and statistics on crime incidents, victims,
and trends occurring each year between 1993 and 1997 in the United States.
Federal Partner: U.S. Department of Justice
- Fatal Firearm Injuries in the United States, 1962-1994
This report reviews the descriptive epidemiology of firearm-related mortality
in the United States from 1962-1994.
Federal Partner: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
