“Hazing tends to occur in communities where there’s a certain ethos of prowess — an imaginary strength that has to be shown in order to belong and an exclusivity that has to be preserved,” Colette Brown, a licensed psychotherapist in New York City, tells TODAY.com.

The Syracuse district attorney is giving 11 high school students 48 hours to turn themselves in for an alleged hazing incident that he describes as a "criminal matter."

The district attorney in Syracuse, New York, is giving a group of high school students 48 hours to turn themselves in for an alleged hazing incident that

Eleven teen lacrosse players from upstate New York are accused of plotting or participating in the same stunt: staging a kidnapping scene and making younger teammates believe they were being abducted by armed assailants dressed in black.

Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick gave anyone involved a 48-hour window to turn themselves in to avoid a criminal record.