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Understanding and Preventing Campus Violence
Michele Paludi
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Description for Understanding and Preventing Campus Violence
Hardback. Offers advice to campus administrators, parents, students, and employees on how to prevent and manage campus violence. This book provides insights into the reasons behind violent acts, prevention techniques, methods students can use to protect themselves, and therapeutic techniques. Editor(s): Paludi, Michele A. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313348280
SKU
V9780313348280
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About Michele Paludi
Michele A. Paludi is president of Human Resources Management Solutions and participating faculty at Union Graduate College, Schenectady, NY. Paludi is series editor for Praeger's Women's Psychology and Women and Careers in Management and has authored or edited 38 texts on workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, psychology of women, workplace violence, and campus violence. Her book Ivory Power: Sexual Harassment on ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding and Preventing Campus Violence
The recent episodes of campus violence in the US have received much media attention and have permanently etched in the minds of millions of Americans fear that campuses, once thought to be safe, are no longer havens from violence. In this timely volume, editor Paludi brings together a multidisciplinary group of contributors to codify and make orderly sense of the ... Read more