Exam stress? Numbers show domestic violence spikes during exams

[The Straight Story]

Exam stress? Numbers show domestic violence spikes during exams


SACRAMENTO, CA - With exam season approaching, newly-released data from Sacramento State University indicates some students may need to be concerned with more than just all-night study sessions in the coming month.

Information from the Student Health Center at Sac State shows that, during final exams and mid terms, domestic violence escalates among students.

"I don't think people understand that intimate partner violence is such a part of the adolescent population," said Jessica Heskin, a violence and sex assault counselor at Sacramento State. "I see a lot of it during midterms and finals, where the batterer will keep the victim up all night in arguments so that they're exhausted the next night."

A few years ago, she began noticing the trend. Heskin said 61 percent of her domestic violence cases in 2009 were reported during midterms and finals.

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