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Noonan, James H.; Vavra, Malissa C. – US Department of Justice (NJ1), 2007
Data from a variety of sources about crime in schools and colleges and characteristics of the people who commit these offenses provide key input in developing theories and operational applications that can help combat crime in this nation's schools, colleges, and universities. Given the myriad of data available, the objective of this study is to…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Crime, Law Enforcement, School Location
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Warkentin, Jennifer B.; Gidycz, Christine A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007
This study extended the findings of Cleveland, Koss, and Lyon's (1999) research on rape tactics to a sample of college men by examining the use and acceptance of sexually aggressive tactics. Participants included 297 male undergraduate students who filled out instruments assessing for a history of sexual aggression and other personality…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Males, Factor Analysis
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Schwartz, Allan J. – Journal of American College Health, 2006
Studies of college student suicide can be grouped into the following 4 eras: 1920-1960, 1960-1980, 1980-1990, and 1990-2004. The suicide rate for students has declined monotonically across these 4 eras, from 13.4 to 8.0 to 7.5 and, most recently, to 6.5. The decreasing proportion of men in the student populations studied largely accounts for this…
Descriptors: Suicide, College Students, Mortality Rate, Males