Identifying prevention and intervention strategies that reduce school disruption and crime is a national priority. Assistant Professor Amanda Nickerson is using data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) to: (1) assess the extent to which schools use crime prevention strategies considered to be “best practices;” (2) explore whether school crisis prevention and intervention strategies can be reliably differentiated according to the constructs of authoritarian and educational/therapeutic approaches; and (3) assess the extent to which these school approaches influence school crime and disruption.