Different Types Of Campus Violence

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Campus violence can happen anywhere. It can happen at any college or high school in any state. In 2014, there was 27,000 campus crime incidents reported just at colleges. Most of the crimes reported were 13,500 burglaries which consist of about 50% of crimes in 2014. Another 25% is forcible sex offenses with 6,700 incidents. This was actually a 2% decrease from 2013 with 27,400 on-campus crimes reported. There are very many different types of campus violence that happens around the world and affects people. One of the different types of campus violence is sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is any unwanted sexual advances or requests for favors. It can occur in any place such as the workplace, schools and many other settings. Sexual …show more content…
It’s not just parents but other family members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and even cousins. It could cause the parents to want their kids to switch schools or go to homeschooling. Cromer 4 With how many ways there are to cause campus violence there are also multiple ways to prevent that stuff to happen. The many ways include upgrading security and making new students feel welcome. There are already schools around the world that have started upgraded their security. They have installed metal detectors and they have started having people sign in to even get into school. The way to make new students feel welcome is to have other students greet them and the same for teachers. Teachers are responsible for teaching kids and giving them guidance. But it’s not just the teachers to give students guidance it’s also up to parents. Parents are an important part in a child’s life. The ways parents can help their kids not indulge in violent acts is to have a wonderful environment for the kids to grow up in. Parents can also keep tabs on their social life by making sure they aren’t going through anything and haven’t told …show more content…
They could get sent to jail and if they had been committed of stalking then they will have a restraining order. Even though statistics show that the number of campus crimes has gone down it’s still pretty high. Even shootings have gone down at a pretty fast

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