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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

Cyberstalking: A New Word for a New Problem A young woman goes to court and gets a no-contact restraining order against a 28-year-old man who is harassing her. In retaliation, during the course of more than a year, the man posts her name and address on popular Internet websites including MySpace, Facebook, and Craigslist, inviting

The Scope of the Problem Stalking is usually measured by researchers by inter- viewing or surveying members of the general public. Respondents are categorized as stalking victims if they disclose that they were contact many times by the same person in the same way, or if they experienced a number of different kinds of unwanted

INDIVIDUALS MENACED BY STALKERS Stalking: A New Word for an Old Problem Stalking is a serious and pervasive crime that affects millions of Americans each year.… This dangerous and criminal behavior is still often mischaracterized as harmless.… Persistent stalking and harassment can lead to serious consequences for victims, whose lives may be upended by fear.

THREE COMPETING APPROACHES TO REDUCING THE PROBLEM OF FORCIBLE RAPE Over the years, three approaches have been devel- oped to address the problem of sexual assault. The oldest (now subject to vehement denunciation) is the blame-the-victim approach, which faults the attitudes, words, and actions of the person attacked. Following the logic of this approach, females

Sexual Assaults Within Marriages Under English common law, rape within marriage had been considered impossible, by definition. For centuries, the leading figures in jurisprudence con- tended that under the marriage contract, a wife V I C T IMS OF R AP E S AN D OT H E R S E XUAL AS S AULT

Sexual Assaults Behind Bars Sexual violence among inmates was rediscovered and documented as a serious problem decades ago (see Lockwood, 1980). The rape of weaker inmates by stronger prisoners, once a taboo topic, has been written about and depicted in movies for decades (see MacNamara, 1983). Rapes are periodically pic- tured in movies about prison