Understanding and preventing campus violence /
Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008. |
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Description: | xxv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7181917 |
Summary: | The recent shootings at Virginia Tech brought issues surrounding campus violence to the forefront once again. But campuses have always had problems with stalking, sexual harassment, bullying, rape, robbery, burglary, and intimate partner violence, among other things. In fact, the incidence rates of campus violence are quite startling. For example, the incidence of sexual harassment among undergraduate students ranges between 20 and 80 percent each year. Between 8 and 15 percent of college women say they have been raped. And battering occurs in up to a third of all couples in dating relationships in the U.S. Fortunately, there are solutions to the problem of campus violence. In Understanding and Preventing Campus Violence , Michele Paludi and a host of experts detail preventive procedures as well as methods to stay safer on campus. |
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Physical Description: | xxv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780313348280 (alk. paper) 0313348286 (alk. paper) |