Deviance and crime in colleges and universities : what goes on in the halls of ivy / by Mark Hickson III and Julian B. Roebuck.

By:

Hickson, Mark

Contributor(s):

Roebuck, Julian B

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780398079970
0398079978

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Deviance and Crime in Colleges and Universities : What Goes on in the Halls of Ivy.DDC classification:

378.195

LOC classification:

LC191.94

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Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The setting for interaction : the university's function and structure -- Chapter 3. Student interactions in their everyday lives -- Chapter 4. Student-athletes as long as we win the game -- Chapter 5: Will we be doing anything important tomorrow? undergraduate interactions with faculty -- Chapter 6. Butting heads among faculty members -- Chapter 7. Personality types of faculty and administrators --Chapter 8. Administrators sweep it under the carpet and hope it melts -- Chapter 9. Outside forces: micro managing into oblivion -- Chapter 10. Reconstructing academia.

Summary: "This book provides potential answers to reduce deviant behavior and crime in colleges and universities. Claiming that the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shootings were aberrations, the authors have nevertheless uncovered offenses that presage major criminal incidents, such as students' engaging in cheating, plagiarism, binge drinking, date rape, assault, and harassment. To arrive at solutions, the authors collaborated to develop an interdisciplinary comprehensive typology of deviant behavior and crime in academia."--Resource description page.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.

"This book provides potential answers to reduce deviant behavior and crime in colleges and universities. Claiming that the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shootings were aberrations, the authors have nevertheless uncovered offenses that presage major criminal incidents, such as students' engaging in cheating, plagiarism, binge drinking, date rape, assault, and harassment. To arrive at solutions, the authors collaborated to develop an interdisciplinary comprehensive typology of deviant behavior and crime in academia."--Resource description page.

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