As college campuses become more diverse and competitive, new groups of students are often seen as a threat or challenge to be neutralized with violence. In some cases, moreover, college students are attacked by outsiders who feel that they lack access to opportunities.
Effective measures exist for the purpose of counteracting the threat of violence and hate on campus.
As confidence in conventional institutions continues to slide, Americans are searching for solutions to their personal problems at the margins of society. Some of them turn to violence. Murder and the Media Violence in the mass media has inspired real acts of violence in everyday life. Television and motion pictures fill a vacuum that has been left by the withdrawal of our other institutions from the lives of our youngsters. Dr. Jack Levin is Director of the Program for the Study of Violence at Northeastern University in Boston.