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Abstract: 

Our regular review of the research literature on student behavior and development examines how the low ratio of females among campus police may lower reporting of sexual assault, and ways of improving the accuracy of reporting; whether mass media coverage may actual worsen the problem of campus violence; rape as an act of individual pathology and as the product of a violent subculture; identifying students prone to alcohol abuse; and factors that seem to produce happiness among college students. Reviews include “A Deficiency in Addressing Campus Sexual Assault: The Lack of Women Law Enforcement Officers” by Oehme, K., Stern, N., & Mennicke, A.Oehme, in Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 38: 337–372, 2015; “Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings” by Towers, S., Gomez-Lievano, A., Khan, M., Mubayi, A., & Castillo-Chavez, C., in PLoS ONE 10: 1–12, 2015; “Studying Masculinity and Sexual Assault Across Organizational Culture Groups: Understanding Perpetrators” by Harway, M., & Steel, J.H., in Psychology of Men & Masculinity 16: 374–378, 2015; “A Safety App to Respond to Dating Violence for College Women and Their Friends” by Glass, N., Clough, A., Case, J., Hanson, G., Barnes-Hoyt, J., Waterbury, A., Alhusen, J., Ehrensaft, M., Grace, K.T., & Perrin, N., in BMC Public Health 15: 1–13, 2015; “Intercollegiate Athletes and Sexual Violence: A Review of Literature and Recommendations for Future Study” by McCray, K.L., in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 16: 438–443, 2015; “Control and Alcohol-Problem Recognition Among College Students” by Simons, R.M., Hahn, A.M., Simons, J.S., & Gaster, S., in Journal of American College Health 63: 373–379, 2015; “Determinants of Happiness in Undergraduate University Students” by Flynn, D.M, & MacLeod, S. in College Student Journal 49: 452–460, 2015

Keywords: More Accurate Sexual Assault Reporting Rates; The Impact of Mass Media Coverage of Violence; Fundamental Flaws of Intervention Programs; Innovations in Intervention Programs; Scrutinizing a Violent Subculture; Identifying Susceptibility to Alcohol-In

Affiliations:  1: Georgia Gwinnett College.