January 12, 2011
Blurb
....There are no laws that require colleges to disclose concerns about potentially dangerous students to off-campus authorities, apart from mental-health professionals who must alert law enforcement if a threat to an identifiable victim is imminent. Moreover, it is nearly impossible to predict whether any given individual is going to become violent, say psychiatrists.
"We will never be able to anticipate all acts of violence and perhaps not even most cases of violence," says Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry, medicine and law at Columbia University....
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