On the Wrong Side : How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence. Nicole Bedera

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedera, Nicole.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campus violence--Law and legislation--United States.

Campus violence.

Rape in universities and colleges--Law and legislation--United States.

Rape in universities and colleges.

Sex crimes--Law and legislation--United States.

Sex crimes.

Sexual abuse victims--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Sexual abuse victims.

Sexual harassment in universities and colleges--Law and legislation--United States.

Sexual harassment in universities and colleges.

Women college students--Crimes against--United States.

Women college students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2024.

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

Summary:

This explosive investigation reveals the profound failures of the Title IX system and identifies concrete, surprisingly simple steps we can take to protect students. The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetrators, and the administrators who oversaw their cases, sociologist Nicole Bedera exposes the structures that predictably punish survivors who come forward in the service of protecting--or even rewarding--their perpetrators. In doing so, she reveals that the system tasked with ending gender inequality on campus only intensifies it, upending survivors' lives and threatening the degrees that brought them to college in the first place. Equally heartbreaking and optimistic, On the Wrong Side makes it easy to imagine life-changing interventions for the next generation of students by proposing specific solutions to the structural problems of Title IX. Bedera proves that ending campus sexual violence is within our grasp--and dares us to be courageous enough to take action.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Author's Note

Introduction

Part One. Disappearing Reports: Why There Are So Few Title IX Cases

1. Lexie: Overwhelmed by Bad Choices

2. A Heavy Burden: The Pressure Survivors Feel to Spare Their Perpetrators

3. The Illusion of Choice: How Schools Steer Survivors Away from Investigations

Part Two. "Neutral" But Not Equal: Student Experiences of Investigations

4. Marissa: Victim and Villain

5. Stacking the Deck: The System That Protects Perpetrators

6. Never Enough Evidence: The Failures of Title IX Investigations

7. The Fallout: The Unequal Impact of Investigations

Part Three. The Cover-Up: How Everyone Comes to Accept Injustice

8. Chelsea and Elliott: A Deafening Silence

9. The Myth of Hysterical Women Ruining Lives: Administrators Rationalize Their (In)Actions

10. Gaslit and Silenced: Survivors Learn to Blame Themselves

11. Keep Fighting or Graduate: How Universities Demand Survivors' Compliance

Part Four. Looking to the Future: Fulfilling the Broken Promises of Title IX

12. A Better Way: Creating a System That Supports Survivors

Acknowledgments

Appendix A. Methods

Appendix B. Featured Student Participant Demographics

Appendix C. Staff Participant Demographics

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-39590-5

OCLC:

1450109624