Criminal Victimization in Urban Schools. Applications of the National Crime Survey Victimization and Attitude Data / M. Joan McDermott.

Victimization data from 26 American cities surveyed in 1974 and 1975 are used in this study to examine personal victimizations--rapes, robberies, assaults, and larcenies--that occurred in urban schools. Findings of the study include the following: (1) 270,000 personal victimizations were reported to have occurred inside schools over the course of a year; (2) most of the in-school crime was either petty theft or assault resulting in minor injury to the victim, and weapons were rarely used; (3) 78% of in-school victimizations were reported by students; (4) most of the in-school offenders were perceived by their victims to be young males of black or other minority races; (5) nine out of ten of the in-school victimizations suffered by students and four out of five of those suffered by teachers and others were not reported to the police. (Author/RLV)

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