Campus Crime: City Influenced or Student Provoked
For most students, college is a time of learning and growth, with the occasional partying, and mistakes made here and there. However, in recent years, life on college campuses has taken a drastic turn. In addition to worrying about passing classes, students are also worrying about what their fate will be if they make the wrong decision and turn down the wrong corner.
As home to over 250 college campuses, Boston is a breeding ground for young kids experiencing their first taste of freedom. Because it is a big city, living in Boston poses more threat than living in the suburbs. Students have to worry about more than where they parked their cars and taking cabs home by themselves. Shockingly, some of the students themselves are more of a threat than the panhandlers standing outside the local Burger King and the ever-present strangers in the city roaming the streets after dark.
In the past three years of this reporter’s attendance at Northeastern, a student was shot and killed in his on-campus apartment and one student’s brother was killed and three others were injured by a hit and run that occurred on campus. Two close friends were jumped, and this reporter’s boyfriend was jumped twice in the past year, all on campus, or by students attending Northeastern.
In 1991, the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act was implemented and requires colleges to publish an annual log of the crime statistics that occurred on their campuses each year. This information is available at most Public Safety departments’ websites for nearly all college campuses.
Northeastern has taken the standard precautionary measures by requiring each student to carry a university identification card, of...
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...identified a 17-year-old student who indicated that he knew who the two juveniles were. The case is still being investigated by the Boston Police Department with NUPD's assistance.”
This along with countless other reports of theft and robbery are mentioned in what seems to be weekly in the NU crime log as well.
Whether it is a lack of security and effort on Northeastern’s part, or an immaturity and naivete of the studnets that attend the school, most would agree that the crime on this campus has become out of control in recent years. Students and members of the Northeastern community need to come together and figure out how to put an end to such crimes, for if they don’t the rate of which they occur will surely continue to rise.
For more information on crimes that occur on college campuses everywhere, those interested can access http://ope.edu.gov/security.
What many need to be vigilant of is that not just campus students are in jeopardy when it comes to ravish and sexual assault, but additionally people with disabilities , children and elders, the homeless, prison inmates and immigrants that do not have licit documentation and that many times are put in positions of sexual coercion.
The most prominent resource that emphasizes nursing professionalism is an article from the Kentucky Nurses. The author Teresa Huber thoroughly demonstrates the idea behind nursing professionalism and the importance of being a skilled nurse. The author states that professionalism is “respect for human dignity and to never discriminate against patients” (Huber 2015). Professionalism isn’t purely based on appearance but also on the attitude of the nurse and the amount of respect a nurse shows their patients. It’s important for a nurse to never judge a patient and never make a patient feel like they are in the wrong, doing so demonstrates an inability to care for the patient in a respectful manner. Also demonstrating disrespect to a patient’s wishes and concerns will only worsen the rapport the nurse must make with the patient. The author also expresses that “We are accountable for ourselves” (Huber 2015, p.1) that nurses must take responsibility for their actions and make sure that they are giving the best quality care that they can give. If a nurse doesn’t perform to the best of their capability the nurse is demonstrating a lack of motivation and determination. This article reinforces core beliefs on nursing professionalism because it helps explain that a nurse’s attitude and treatment toward the patient is essential to perform their
Also, the colleges that attempt to cover up the crime should be penalized by not our justice system but the media so the world can be better informed about the college they either go to or send their child to. First I summarized "Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?" written by A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Space. The. Then I used information from my criminology class to better define violent crime. Lastly, I explained how rape on campus is not a cultural component.
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The Northeastern Police Department has their own web site with an extensive report on sexual assault and its statistics. In 1990, the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crimes Act was put into place.
According to an interview by Beckett Brennan with Katie Couric “95 percent of victims that were sexual assault on college campuses do not report the sexual assault” (The Case). Majority of sexual assaults that happen on a college campus, will never be reported. Colleges should have more of a responsibility when it comes to the sexual assaults on campuses. Colleges need to own up to the sexual assaults, and take responsibility for the sexual assaults. Colleges need to stop pushing sexual assaults away, and need to stand up and do something about the sexual assaults on college campuses. Although sexual assaults are an individuals responsible, colleges should also be responsible in the sexual assaults that happen on college campuses.
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