The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower: Campus Crime as a Social Problem

by Bonnie S. Fisher and John J. Sloan III

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521124050
• ISBN13: 9780521124058
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"