John J. Sloan III, Bonnie S. Fisher

The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chronicles how four groups of activists convinced the public that campus crime posed a new danger to college students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780521195171
• ISBN-10: 0521195179
• Artikelnr.: 30534338

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.