The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-19517-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 527 g

A cursory reading of the history of US colleges and universities reveals that campus crime has been part of collegiate life since the Colonial Era, yet it was not until the late 1980s that it suddenly became an issue on the public stage. Drawing from numerous mass media and scholarly sources and using a theoretical framework grounded in social constructionism, this text chronicles how four groups of activists - college student advocates, feminists, victims and their families, and public health experts - used a variety of tactics and strategies to convince the public that campus crime posed a new danger to the safety and security of college students and the ivory tower itself, while simultaneously convincing policymakers to take action against the problem. Readers from a range of disciplinary interests will find the book both compelling and valuable to understanding campus crime as a newly constructed social reality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sloan III, John J.

Fisher, Bonnie S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Jugendkriminalität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Violence, vice, and victimization on American college and university campuses: a brief history lesson; 2. Constructing campus crime as a new social problem; 3. Constructing unsafe and violent college campuses; 4. Constructing the sexual victimization of college women on campus; 5. Constructing postsecondary institutional liability for campus crime; 6. Constructing binge drinking on college campuses; 7. The legacy of claimsmakers: institutionalizing the dark side of the ivory tower.

Über Autor(innen)

Fisher, Bonnie S.
Bonnie S. Fisher is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and a research Fellow at the Center for Criminal Justice Research at the University of Cincinnati. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 scholarly publications and has co-edited four volumes that focus on victimization issues. Professor Fisher was an honorary visiting scholar at the University of Leicester, Scarman Centre in the UK; a visiting scholar in the Division of Prevention and Community Research at the Consultation Center at Yale University School of Medicine; and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Sloan III, John J.
John J. Sloan III is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology and Chair of the Department of Justice Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, research reports, and presentations and co-edited two previous books on campus crime. Professor Sloan has been a Research Scientist at the Institute for the Study of Children and Families at Eastern Michigan University, as well as Visiting Professor of Criminal Justice at the universities of Alabama and West Florida.