ABSTRACT
This book serves as a sourcebook to enhance and evaluate safety programs, generate new solutions and interventions, comply with new legislation, and present practical steps and guidelines to establish best practices. It pays particular attention to the factors that may give rise to crime, considering high-risk drinking and examining the intersection between hate crimes and violence. Devoting chapters to discrimination in all its forms, whether against international students, students of color, or on the basis of ethnicity or sexual orientation, it reviews the range of issues relating to harassment and violence against women and engages with hazing and the presence of guns on campus. The authors pay attention to the different circumstances that may apply in specific institutional types, such as community colleges and minority-serving institutions. They offer perspectives from administrators, campus security, student affairs personnel, faculty and policy makers.The purpose is to provide readers with the context and tools to devise a comprehensive safety plan. For administrators operating with few formal support systems, advice is given on how to co-opt individuals and resources from around the campus and the local community to assist in maintaining a safe and welcoming campus.Click here for press release.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |11 pages
Identifying the Problem
chapter 1|9 pages
The Complexity of Maintaining a Safe Campus in Higher Education
part |119 pages
Institutional and Individual-Based Challenges
chapter 5|24 pages
Safe Campuses for Students
part |88 pages
Institutional Context and Responses
chapter 8|23 pages
Call for Community-Based Education
chapter 9|15 pages
The Role of the Campus Police and Security Department in the 21st Century
part |53 pages
Institutional Resources