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LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS INJURED AND SLAIN IN THE LINE OF DUTY Officers who work for law enforcement, probation, parole, or corrections agencies at local, state, and federal levels face special challenges. They must seek out and interact with known criminals on a daily basis—just the opposite of what risk reduction strategies would recommend. The police […]

VIOLENCE BETWEEN PRISONERS Inmates who are attacked by other inmates face several unique problems: They are captives held against their will in the company of others who also desperately would like to be somewhere else. Yet the predicament facing nonviolent inmates is that they can’t escape interacting with dangerous persons under very difficult circumstances and

Criminal Justice System Reforms Bias crime victims and their supporters have been able to improve the response of the criminal justice system in many ways: securing the passage of new laws penalizing hate-motivated acts more severely; spurring police departments to take special steps to investigate and solve these kinds of crimes; and encouraging district attorneys

TARGETS OF HATE CRIMES Rediscovering a Very Old Problem A 15-year-old boy comes out and tells classmates that he is a homosexual. When he begins to wear makeup and jewelry, he has to endure teasing and bullying from some of the boys at the junior high school. During a computer lab, in front of 24

Casualties While on the Job Certain jobs are far more dangerous than others. For example, injuries and deaths arising from robberies are a real possibility for cashiers in conve- nience stores, gas station attendants, and taxi drivers. AD D IT ION AL GROUP S OF V I C T IMS WIT H SPE C IAL

CASUALTIES OF WORKPLACE VIOLENCE Fearing that he is about to be fired, a part-time letter carrier barges into the back room of his local post office and starts shooting wildly. He guns down 14 people and then kills himself. (Rugala, 2004) A military reservist with a top secret clearance who was working for a defense

The Controversy over Hazing on Campus A 26-year-old drum major in a marching band known for combining technical brilliance with inno- vative showmanship dies of hemorrhagic shock from being punched repeatedly during an initiation ritual. Because the marching band has a reputation for tol- erating physical hazing, the board of trustees puts the band’s leader

A Timeline of Some of the Worst Campus Shootings Year Campus What Happened and Who the Casualties Were 1966 University of Texas A student climbs a tower and opens fire, killing 16 and wounding 31. 1968 South Carolina State College State police officers kill three students and wound 27 others during a protest against desegregation.

Threats Facing College Students In the not-so-distant past, the ivy-covered buildings on academic quadrangles were pictured as sanctuaries that were shielded from the problems of the “real world.” But a growing stream of stories about col- lege students killed, raped, and robbed on campus has shattered that myth. Undergraduates and gradu- ate students can be

VICTIMS OF CRIMES COMMITTED AT SCHOOL Threats Facing Middle and High School Students Teenage students face a special problem. Compul- sory education laws compel them to attend their local high school, unless their parents can afford a private or parochial school or are able to home- school them. By entering into the mainstream of high