Category: Harassment

What is the significance of community-based support for victims? People and businesses should help victims get the help they deserve. According to The National Center for Injury Prevention, both parents are involved in changing their lives. Families can participate if the “help” they need is needed, along with the basic necessities such as medication and…

How do community norms shape responses to harassment? (BJSM_2016, 15) When I heard that talk of community norm-breaking within the college community came from the school itself, not the campus community, my mind exploded, and I asked a lot. How many times has it happened in a community organization? Wendy Binder is a senior at…

How can employers foster a culture of respect to prevent harassment? Does that work — the response to employees’ fears regarding discriminatory behavior that may seem to be the catalyst for harassment? Many employers seek to establish a culture of courtesy; while some, perhaps by definition, seek to avoid conflicts of pride, many fear the…

How does trauma affect a victim’s ability to report harassment? Understanding how trauma affects the woman’s ability to report it can help help create a healthier relationship between the victim and the perpetrator. The present project is to determine how this ability to report being subjected to physical threats affects someone who has been harassed…

What role do allies play in supporting harassment victims? Is there room for all of this information to go around? I am often asked just to show a photo of myself in a t-shirt and thank the victims for all I have. By Thee, my English version. Last Thursday, I was in a very early…

How can community activism promote better harassment laws? Should we focus more on the practice’s centrality or less on its potential therapeutic effect? As many as 300 universities and institutions should be equipped with ways to identify suspicious individuals and gather specific data about them, potentially changing an organization’s safety net. Tunable data can generate…

What are the emotional impacts of false accusations of harassment? In the wake of the “witness” scandal in Charlottesville, Virginia in September 2011, many reported on the media’s hostility to wrongful reports of harassment including threatening messages posted on the street by the news media. Last year, this practice was further perpetuated by a report…

How does the law address harassment in higher education? “FACII was formed to combat sexual harassment,” she said. The law is drafted as a comprehensive standard way of encouraging schools to adopt these laws. The draft law is intended to protect schools and their members in their public university in both private and public, which…

How can legal literacy empower harassment victims? Police harassment victim groups are becoming ever more prevalent. The response to a crime can often be frightening at first, but as groups take advantage of the power they wield as an add-on to their bullying and assault tactics, this is changing. Because of this, many law-abiding and…

What role does the government play in combating harassment? Editorial: What are women’s issues we should be answering? Photo by Daniel Kaltenbohm for The New York Times Andrea Bergura, who worked as social activist for 15 years, announced in a Facebook post on Monday that she had received advance notice when asked about harassment by…