College campuses are communities populated with individuals at high risk for unintentional and violent injury, the vast majority of whom are single and experiencing freedom from home and parental supervision for the first time. Despite broad-based concern about violence on campus, accurate information about the scope and nature of this problem is hard to come by. Nevertheless, there is general agreement that since the 1960s crime and violence, often exacerbated by alcohol consumption, have been increasing on America's college campuses. A college campus is a learning community where these acts may seem unthinkable; however, campuses are not immune to the same violent outrages occurring in secondary education or in the public workplace. Youth violence involves almost all of our social institutions, values, beliefs and attitudes When we hear students disengage with institutions or people and threaten to harm themselves or others, we may be able to prevent the potential for large-scale serious violent crimes. College campuses should begin to engage in discussions on prevention
College campuses are communities populated with individuals at high risk for unintentional and violent injury, the vast majority of whom are single and experiencing freedom from home and parental supervision for the first time. Despite broad-based concern about violence on campus, accurate information about the scope and nature of this problem is hard to come by. Nevertheless, there is general agreement that since the 1960s crime and violence, often exacerbated by alcohol consumption, have been increasing on America's college campuses. A college campus is a learning community where these acts may seem unthinkable; however, campuses are not immune to the same violent outrages occurring in secondary education or in the public workplace. Youth violence involves almost all of our social institutions, values, beliefs and attitudes When we hear students disengage with institutions or people and threaten to harm themselves or others, we may be able to prevent the potential for large-scale serious violent crimes. College campuses should begin to engage in discussions on prevention