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                            Library & Multimedia
 School Safety: Research on Gathering Tips and Addressing Threats
NCJ Number
              300306
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*NIJ Journal* Volume: 283
Author(s)
          Mary Poulin Carlton
Date Published

April 2021
Length
              6 pages
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              This *NIJ Journal* article presents tip lines as a way for schools and jurisdictions to gather information on potential threats, and summarizes studies that indicate tip lines are useful for violence prevention when they are implemented as part of a coordinated response to threats.
Abstract
              Tip lines offer a way for schools and jurisdictions to gather information on potential threats. A tip received and acted on in time can prevent school violence and save students’ lives. NIJ’s Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI) funded an array of studies that address the design, implementation, and effectiveness of tip lines as a school safety tool. This *NIJ Journal* article summarizes the available results from those studies, which indicate that tip lines may be useful for violence prevention when they are implemented as part of a coordinated overall response to threats. The article discusses a variety of tip lines around the United States — such as Colorado’s Safe2Tell and Nevada’s SafeVoice — to explore how tip lines can be used to gather information and what role they can play in monitoring and responding to threats. The article concludes with directions for future research, including evaluating the cost-effectiveness of different tip-gathering strategies and coordinating responses in multijurisdictional environments.
      
  
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Grant Number(s)
        2014-CK-BX-0004
                                2017-CK-BX-0002
                                2015-CK-BX-K002
                                2016-CK-BX-0007
                                2014-CK-BX-0002
                                2017-CK-BX-0004


  
  
        
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        Chicago Public Schools's Connect and Redirect to Respect (CRR) Program to use social media monitoring to identify and connect youth to behavioral interventions.
                                Student Threat Assessment as a Safe and Supportive Prevention Strategy
                                A Roadmap to Evidence-Based School Safety: Safe Communities Safe Schools
                                Research on the Effects of an Anonymous Tip Line and Multidisciplinary Response Teams in Schools across the State of Nevada
                                Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System to Improve School Safety
                                Assessment of National and State Tip Line Technology as a Strategy for Identifying Threats to School Safety
    
  
  
Date Published: April 1, 2021
    
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                  https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38329.v1
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