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Prevention and Prevalence Resources

HazingPreventionNetwork.org
Hazing Prevention Network is a national organization dedicated to providing current information related to hazing and hazing prevention to individuals and organizations. Resources offered on their website include, information about what you can do, links to videos, personal stories, and newsletters.

StopHazing.org
Stop Hazing provides accurate, up-to-date hazing information for students, parents, and educators. There are informative articles on all forms of types of hazing, including high school, military, athletic and fraternity/sorority hazing.

The National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention
The NCHRP engages in research, information-sharing, and the development and dissemination of evidence-based hazing prevention and intervention strategies. Review the newly released “Initial Findings of the National Study of Student Hazing: Examing and Transforming Campus Hazing Cultures” linked from their website.

Inside Hazing: Understanding Hazardous Hazing
Provides practical information on all aspects of hazing as well as the theoretical perspective of Susan Lipkins, Ph.D., author of “Preventing Hazing: How Parents, Teachers, and Coaches Can Stop the Violence, Harassment, and Humiliation.”

Unofficial Clearinghouse to Track Hazing Deaths and Incidents
Comprised by one of the nation’s leading experts on hazing, Hank Nuwer, this website compiles hazing new stories and reports on hazing incidents.

Sports Hazing Incidents
An ESPN article that documents 20 years of hazing in high school and college athletics.

Anti-Hazing
A free iPhone App developed to provide information about hazing, including resources available and ways to prevent it. The app also acts as a tool to report hazing behavior as it is happening.

NCAA

Fraternities and Sororities

Does hazing actually increase group solidarity?
Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity

Teambuilding and Alternatives to Hazing

Cornell’s Teambuilding Website
Learn about how Cornell can help you design an exciting new member program.

Business Balls
Free team building games and ideas

Teambuilding, Inc.
Information on team-building strategies, philosophy and basic how-to.

High School Hazing

Initiation Rites in American High Schools
Published by Alfred University in August of 2000, this study of high school students around the United States illustrates the prevalence and the nature of hazing.

Advocacy Groups

C.H.U.C.K. (Committee to Halt Useless College Killings) c/o Eileen Stevens
516 567-1130, P.O. Box 188, Sayville, New York 11782

C.H.A.D. (Cease Hazing Activities and Deaths) c/o Rita Saucier
334 343-2119, P.O. Box 850955, Mobile, Alabama 36685

Bibliography

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Campo, S., Poulos, G. & Sipple, J. (2005). Prevalence and Profiling: Hazing Among College Students and Points of Intervention. American Journal of Health Behavior, 29(2), 137-149.

Cokley, K., Miller, K., Cunningham, D., Motoike, J., King, A. & Awad, G. (2001). Developing an instrument to assess college students’ attitudes toward pledging and hazing in Greek letter organizations. College Student Journal, 35(3), 451-456.

Finkel, M. A. (2002). Traumatic injuries caused by hazing practices. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 20(3), 228-233.

Hollmann, B. (2002). Hazing: Hidden campus crime. New Directions for Student Services, 99,11.

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Kimbrough, W. (2003). Black Greek 101: The culture, customs, and challenges of Black fraternities and sororities. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

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Lipkins, Susan (2006). Preventing Hazing: How Parents, Teachers and Coaches Can Stop the violence, Harassment and Humiliation. Jossey Bass Wiley.

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Lodewijkx, H., & Syroit, J. (2001). Affiliation during naturalistic severe and mild initiations: Some further evidence against the severity-attraction hypothesis. Current Research in Social Psychology, 6(7), 90-107.

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Nuwer, H. (1990). Broken pledges: The deadly rite of hazing. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press.

Nuwer, H. (2000). High school hazing: When rites become wrongs. Franklin Watts: New York.

Nuwer, H. (2001). Wrongs of passage: Fraternities, sororities, hazing and binge drinking. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Nuwer, H. (2004). The hazing reader. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Sweet, S. (1999). Understanding fraternity hazing: Insights from symbolic interactionist theory. Journal of College Student Development, 40(4), 355- 363.

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