Understanding and Preventing Campus Violence

by Michele A. Paludi

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313348286
• ISBN13: 9780313348280
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 6.6"