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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

School Stress, Relationship Problems Can Trigger Campus Violence

A study of campus violence entitled "Campus Attacks," examined 272 incidents of "targeted violence," in which 281 people died and 247 were injured. Of these, 190 were students and 72 were college employees.

The definition of targeted violence is an incident in which an attacker selects a victim before hand or randomly chooses victims because they fit a predetermined profile or relationship. This definition excludes violence that breaks out spontaneously.
  • Intimate relationships triggered one-third of the attacks, and academic stress was involved in 10 percent of them.
  • Sixty percent of the perpetrators were students or former students, and guns were used in the majority of the incidents.
  • Knives were used 20 percent of the time.
  • Ninety percent of the attackers were male, and 75 percent of the time, the perpetrator specifically targeted one or more individuals.
The Campus Attacks report was released on the third anniversary of a shooting rampage at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, which left 33 students and faculty members dead. The FBI and the Education Department are currently studying factors such as past behaviors and mental illness of perpetrators of college violence.

Labels: causes, relationships, violence, stress

Posted By: Aspen/CRC

Comments:

Relationship problems on 6/3/2010
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