Longitudinal Study of School Violence and Juvenile Justice in Oregon

This study analyzes 5,129,815 student-level observations from 855,580 unique youth in Oregon, spanning academic years 2004/2005 through 2012/2013. It investigates root causes of school violence and the school-to-prison pipeline using a multi-systems approach, integrating data from education, juvenile justice, health, and human services agencies.

Use Cases

• Analyze disciplinary responses like suspension and expulsion rates across demographic subgroups of students.
• Model the trajectory from a school disciplinary incident to juvenile justice involvement using individual, family, and school factors.
• Investigate the interplay of risk factors from multiple state agency datasets to predict school violence outcomes.

Strengths

• Contains 5,129,815 longitudinal observations from 855,580 unique students, providing substantial scale for analysis.
• Integrates data from multiple state systems (education, juvenile justice, health, human services) over a 10-year period.
• Employs a masked student identification code to support secure record matching across agencies.

Limitations

• The collection contains only 16 SPSS syntax files and guides; the underlying data files are not included.
• The qualitative case study component on school shootings was limited, with interviews restricted to school principals.
• Juvenile justice data for modeling longer-term outcomes is limited to the years 2014-2015, a shorter timeframe.

Provenance

Source

RMC Research, with support from Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) and Oregon Department of Education (ODE).

Collection Method

Secondary analysis of longitudinal administrative data from multiple Oregon state agencies.

Time Range

Academic years 2004/2005 through 2012/2013 for core education data, with juvenile justice data from 2014-2015.

Freshness

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Geography

State of Oregon, United States.