NCJ Number
192062
Date Published
2001
Length
326 pages
Annotation
This volume aims to provide a solution-oriented resource for violence prevention and intervention on college campuses.
Abstract
The text aims to help college personnel, students, and parents with directed, research-based strategies to prepare for the possibility of violence before it occurs. The authors include a police psychologist, a health psychologist, and a residence life director. The text focuses broad concerns and the conceptualization of violence; general violence prevention strategies; and prevention and intervention in specific forms of campus violence, including sexual assault, rioting, hate crimes, hazing, homicide, non-sexual assault, arson, and bombing. The text also includes a literature review to explain the current patterns of violence on campus. The discussion explains how to detect violence at its earliest stages, interrupt the progression of violence with proven techniques, and respond to many forms of violence with a systematic model. It also guides campuses on actions and approaches to take in the aftermath of violence, the development and implementation of effective and comprehensive violence prevention policies and procedures, and the application of best practices in the area of violence identification and management. Checklists, figures, forms, glossary, and subject and name indexes, appended violence response flow charts, and chapter reference lists