Campus Crime Legal, Social, and Policy Perspectives

"This updated edition examines the advancements that have been made in order to better understand campus crime, especially student victimization, and effectively address security issues. For the sake of continuity with the first edition, the authors maintain the three section divisions: "The Legal Context of Campus Crime," "The Social Context of Campus Crime," and "The Security Context of Campus Crime." Within each section, the contributors--criminologists, political scientists, sociologists, planners, lawyers, security experts, and policy advocates--address, what are believed to be, the most pre."@en
"This third edition underscores that interest in the legal, social, and policy contexts of campus crime has not waned. Among the purposes of this new edition is the desire to share with readers the advancements that have occurred in understanding campus crime, especially the dynamics of college student victimization, and efforts to effectively address campus security issues. Presented in three sections, the first examines the legal context of crime by offering five chapters whose focus is on the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act and its state-leve."@en