Male students
ages 12 through 18 reported more crime against them occurring at school
or going to or from school than females in 2000. Males reported 80 crimes
against them while females reported 62 crimes against them per 1,000 students.
(2)
Male students
ages 12 through 18 reported more theft crimes than any other crime against
them in 2000. Females reported 45 incidents per 1,000 students while males
reported 47 thefts per 1,000 students. (2)
Male students
ages 12 through 18 reported much more violent crimes against them than
females in 2000. Males reported 33 incidents per 1,000 students and females
reported 18 incidents per 1,000 students. (2)
Male students
ages 12 through 18 reported almost three times as many incidents of serious
violence against them in 2000. Males reported seven incidents and females
reported two incidents per 1,000 students. (2)
Male and female
12th graders were about equally as likely to report having been injured
on purpose without a weapon in 1996 at school (13 and 11 percent, respectively).
(1)
Threats and bullying:
Ten percent of
males in grades 9 through 12 reported in 1997 they were threatened or injured
with a weapon on school property. Only four percent of females in grades
9 through 12 reported the same problem. (2)
Bullying of female
and male students ages 12 through 18 increased from 1999 to 2001. About
five percent of males and females reported bullying in 1999 and 2001. Bullying
of males increased to nine percent and seven percent for females in 2001.
(2)
Urban males were
more likely than urban females to report being victims of bullying at school
(9 percent versus 6 percent) in the 1992-93 school year. (1)
Physical fights:
Males in grades
9 through 12 were more than twice as likely to report they had been in
a physical fight than females in 2001. About 24 percent of males and about
nine percent of females reported being in a fight. (2)
Hate words:
Males and females
ages 12 through 18 reported being targets of hate-related words at about
the same rate. Thirteen percent of males and 12 percent of females reported
having this problem. (2)
Theft and property damage:
In most years
between 1976 and 1996, 12th-grade males were more likely than 12th-grade
females to have had something stolen at school or on a school bus. (1)
Twelfth-grade
males had their property deliberately damaged at a consistently higher
rate than 12th-grade females between 1976 and 1996. In 1996, 32 percent
of males had their property deliberately damaged at school or on a school
bus, compared with 20 percent of females. (1)
Weapon possession:
Males in grades
9 through 12 were six times as likely to report carrying a weapon at least
one day during a 30-day period than females in 2001. About 18 percent of
males and three percent of females reported carrying a weapon. (2)
There was a decline
between 1993 and 1996 in the percentage of male high school seniors who
reported carrying a weapon to school at least 1 day during a month. The
percentage fell from 14 percent in 1993 to 9 percent in 1996. However,
there was little change in the percentage of female students who reported
carrying a weapon to school during this period (from 2 to 3 percent). (1)
Victimization of teachers:
Male teachers
were much more likely to be victimized in school, with 89 males and 69
females per 1,000 teachers in 2000 reporting victimization. (2)
Female teachers
were most likely to report theft than any other crime, with 49 incidents
of theft, 20 violent incidents and two serious violent incidents per 1,000
teachers in 2000. (2)
Male teachers
were most likely to report violent crimes against them than any other crime,
with 50 incidents of violent crime, 38 incidents of theft and six incidents
of serious violent crimes per 1,000 teachers. (2)
Sources:
1- National Center for Education Statistics, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 1998, Nonfatal Student Victimization- Student Reports.
2- National Center for Education Statistics, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2002, Nonfatal Student Victimization- Student Reports.
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