Types of Campus Violence

‘Massacre results in 20 students dead and 4 injured’, ‘Student raped by lecturer’, ‘Student still suffers from trauma as a result of being beaten up’. Hearing phrases like these can be likened to taking a shower every morning; we hear or read about it almost every other day. However, for any student slogging day and night to secure admission into a prestigious college or university, phrases like these can be their worst nightmare. Campus violence turns what for students is a place to acquire knowledge and be molded to face future challenges, into a living hell. Among the many types of campus violence, the most prevalent are sexual violence, murder and ragging.
One of the many types of campus violence that occur is sexual violence. Sexual violence can be broken down into a few categories like sexual harassment, sexual assault, campus dating violence and even stalking. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 19348 cases of rape were reported across India in 2006, up from 15,847 in 2005 and yet around 71% of rape crimes go unreported (InfoChange India).Women are more inclined to be on the receiving end of sexual violence compared to men. According to the National Violence Against Women Survey, more women(25%) reported that they were raped or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date in their lifetimes compared to men(8%) (Facts About Violence). In Delhi, November 2002, a female student of the Maulana Azad Medical College was dragged off a road at knife-point and was gang-raped inside the confines of the Khooni Darwaza, a state-protected monument located opposite the college gate (India Together). If allowed to continue without any effort taken to stop, sexual violence could have profound immediate and long-term consequences on a woman’s physical and mental health.
Murder is another type of campus violence that frequently occurs. In a survey done in 2002 by the United Nations and the Operations of Criminal Justice