A new study found the campus sexual violence rate is around one percent, which differs from the oft-cited claim that 1 in 5 ...

The tragic school shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis. represents one of the rarest events in criminal justice—a mass shooting by a teenage girl. One of the "iron laws" in ...

Take a moment and picture an image of a rapist. Without a doubt, you are thinking about a man. Given our pervasive cultural understanding that perpetrators of sexual violence are nearly always men, ...

The committee was charged to undertake a study of what is known and what needs to be known to reduce bullying behavior and its consequences and to report on the on the state of the science on the ...

Black Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population but 33 percent of the victims of reported violent crime. The statistics on homicide are even worse. Over 50 percent of homicide victims are ...

For the 2024 election season, we've updated this reporting to cover the latest changes — and debates — around crime stats. Two key crime reports released by the Justice Department this fall reveal a ...

Twenty-three samples from 22 longitudinal studies assessing both bullying perpetration and bullying victimization were selected from a sample of 1,408 candidate studies using several prespecified ...