Creating And Maintaining Safe College Campuses: A Sourcebook for Evaluatining And Enhancing Safety Programs

by Jackson, Jerlando F. L.

• ISBN13: 9781579221249
• ISBN10: 1579221246
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

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

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Identifying the Problem
The Complexity of Maintaining a Safe Campus in Higher Education: An Administrative Dilemma	p. 3
Institutional and Individual-Based Challenges
Changing the Culture of High-Risk Drinking	p. 15
Violence and Hate Crimes on Campus: Uncovering the Mystique	p. 34
Why Students Beat Each Other: A Developmental Perspective for a Detrimental Crime	p. 58
Safe Campuses for Students: Systemic Transformation Through Re(A)wakened Senior Leaders	p. 75
A Growing Concern: Sexual Violence Against Women on College Campuses	p. 99
Institutional Context and Responses
Safety in the Community College Environment	p. 135
A Call for Community-Based Education: The State of Public Safety Issues at Minority-Serving Institutions	p. 150
The Role of the Campus Police and Security Department in the 21st Century: An Essay Based on 30 Years of Experience	p. 173
The Incompatibility of Weapons and College Campuses	p. 188
The Legal Implications of Campus Crime for Student Affairs Professionals	p. 205
Institutional Resources
Exemplar Programs and Procedures: Best Practices in Public Safety	p. 223
You Are Not Alone: Resources for the College Administrator	p. 241
Elements of a Comprehensive Safety Plan	p. 261
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 275
Index	p. 283
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