The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower
Campus Crime as a Social Problem
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- Authors:
- John J. Sloan III, University of Alabama, Birmingham
- Bonnie S. Fisher, University of Cincinnati
- Date Published: December 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521124058
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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.
Read more- The topic is very timely and holds interest for a large group of people interested in how an issue becomes a national social problem in need of federal policy
- Presents a clearly articulated and easily grasped theoretical framework
- Uses a non-technical narrative to illustrate the major elements of its theoretical arguments
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- Date Published: December 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521124058
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Comparative Empires
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- History of Modern Genocide
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- International Law--War Crimes and Genocide
- Lesson from the Holocaust
- Seminar in Political Sociology
- The Sociology of Persecution
- Victimology
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