TY - BOOK ID - 80819920 TI - The dark side of the ivory tower : campus crime as a social problem AU - Sloan, John J. AU - Fisher, Bonnie PY - 2010 SN - 9780511761911 9780521195171 9780521124058 9780511860379 0511860374 0511761910 0521195179 0521124050 0511861419 1107204941 1282941909 9786612941900 0511859503 0511858639 0511857764 051185689X PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - College students KW - Crime prevention KW - Safety education KW - College life KW - Universities and colleges KW - University students KW - Students KW - Crimes against KW - Education KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80819920 AB - 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. ER -