Eleven Westhill High School lacrosse players have been charged with unlawful imprisonment in the second degree — a misdemeanor — due to their alleged involvement in the extreme hazing of five younger teammates,

A former teammate of the Syracuse high school students who surrendered to police for an alleged hazing incident shared his reaction to the news with "GMA."

“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.