Re: aggressor stats needed

Linda Purrington (lpurring@earthlink.net)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:24:11 -0700


It is crucial to note that these stats refer to the gender of the
victim--not of the aggressor.
Linda Purrington, Title IX Advocates
lpurring@earthlink.net

Ted Weverka wrote:
>
> Sheeran176@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Did I add correctly, 28 small town killings?
> >
> > Can we look at the larger picture. The number of 1,600 youth
> > dead/year by the
> > hand of another pulling the trigger seems to come to mind.
>
> This sounds reasonable.
> The NCES just released a report on the topic
> Students' Reports of School Crime: 1989 and 1995
> March 1998
> http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/crime/index.html
>
> Here are a couple gender related quotes from the document.
>
> In 1995, male students (5.1 percent) were more likely than
> female students (3.3 percent) to have experienced violent
> victimization at school. A similar relationship also
> existed between violent victimization and gender in 1989.
>
> While the percent of male students who reported having
> experienced violent victimization at school was about
> the same in 1989 as it was in 1995, there was an increase
> in the percent of female students who reported.
>
> TWeverka@opticworks.com


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