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Administrator's guide for responding to campus crime from prevention to liability / Richard Fossey ; Michael Clay Smith, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New directions for higher education ; no. 95.
- New directions for higher education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--United States.
- Universities and colleges.
- Acquaintance rape.
- College students--Crimes against.
- College students.
- United States.
- College administrators--United States.
- College administrators.
- Crime prevention--United States.
- Crime prevention.
- Criminal liability--United States.
- Criminal liability.
- College students--Crimes against--United States.
- Universities and colleges--Security measures--United States.
- Universities and colleges--Security measures.
- Acquaintance rape--United States--Prevention.
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1996.
- Summary:
- This volume addresses campus administrators' growing need to learn more about campus crime and become more skilled in preventing it. Contributing authors provide useful advice on a wide range of issues, including crime prevention programs, campus police training, rape prevention, fraud in federal grant programs, and the problems associated with admitting students with criminal backgrounds. Also covered are civil liability issues and recent federal legislation addressing campus crime issues. This is the 95th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Higher Education. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.
- Contents:
- First things first: developing a crime prevention program / Carole B. Dahlem.
- Crime liability suits and campus administrators / Margaret D. Smith.
- Campus crime, college policy, and federal laws and regulations / Donald D. Gehring.
- Responding to campus rape: a practical guide for college administrators / Richard Fossey ; Michael Clay Smith.
- The liability of colleges and universities for fraud, waste, and abuse in federally funded grants and projects / Steven D. Gordon.
- Rescinding offers of admissions when prior criminality is revealed / Jerome W. D. Stokes ; Allen W. Groves.
- A crime prevention wrap-up: concluding comments on specific crime issues / Richard Fossey ; Michael Clay Smith.
- Notes:
- "Fall 1996".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0787998737
- OCLC:
- 36038171
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