ABSTRACT
Though violence on college campuses has increasingly become an issue of public concern, it emerged predominantly in the 1990s, when incidents of violence became widely publicized. The passing of the 1990 Campus Security Act (now known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act) solidified federal concern about campus crime disclosures, and required mandatory reporting of criminal incidents on campus and neighboring property (The Cleary Center, 2012). Yet regardless of mandated disclosure laws, campus crime victimization remains a critical concern for scholars, campus officials, and students. Government officials have renewed their focus and a recent White House task force report calls attention to the issue and challenges institutions of higher education to more effectively understand and prevent sexual assault on college campuses (White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, 2014).
