The dark side of the ivory tower
Subtitle: campus crime as a social problem
By: John J. Sloan III, Bonnie S. Fisher.
Contributors: Fisher, Bonnie, 1959-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780521195171
Subjects: College students -- Crimes against -- United States; Crime prevention -- United States; Safety education -- United States
Description: "The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower chronicles how four groups of activists convinced the public and Congress that campus crime posed a new danger to college students and the Ivory Tower itself"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.