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Crime and Deviance in the Colleges : Elite Student Excess and Sexual Abuse /
Timely and urgent, this book examines university culture regarding both sexual violence and excess in elite student societies. Taking a criminological and sociological perspective on the institutions, offenders and victims involved, the author recommends measures to improve crime prevention, account...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Crime and Deviance in the Colleges: Elite Student Excess and Sexual Abuse
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 'Edge Work': Deviance and Crime in the Colleges
- Introduction: institutional failure
- Features of universities
- Abuse and harassment
- Systemic elite abuse
- 'Open secrets' and #MeToo
- 'Toff' and 'celeb' offenders
- Elite student societies: and 'over the edge'
- Elite student club culture
- Rite de passage
- 2 The Netherlands and Belgium: The Student Corps and 'Excess'
- Post-war Dutch society, the universities and the corps
- Fennema and the USC corps (Utrecht)
- Incidents, 'hazing' and repeat offending
- Vindicat corps (Groningen) and the corpora
- Controversial 'Dachau' initiation (Amsterdam, 1962)
- The roetkap ('soot-cap') affair (Utrecht, 1965)
- Recidivism
- Fatal Reuzegom corps case: Belgium, 20188
- Firm action: the Netherlands
- 3 UK and US Elite Student Societies: Secrecy and 'Over the Edge'
- Elites within elites: Yale's Skull and Bones
- Oxford University and ultra-elite student clubs
- Social media
- Deaths, harm and repercussions
- Timothy Piazza: Beta Theta Pi (Penn State)
- Conformity and social pressure
- 'Never apologize'
- Skills for the top: 'character building'
- 4 Excess, Reform and Resistance
- Fraternities: accidents, excess and accountability
- Flanagan (2014) on fraternities
- Wesleyan and President Roth
- Reform and resistance
- Wade and fraternity abolition
- Recidivism
- Risk, excess and conformity
- 5 Sexual Discrimination and Abuse: Law and Definitions
- 'Shattered dreams': prejudice and discrimination
- Recommended material: nine sources
- Policing of sexual offences against women
- The Netherlands
- England and Wales
- United States
- Law on sexual offences and common assumptions
- Definition of rape in the US
- EU definitions and views on offences
- Dated law: persistent assumptions and gravity of offences
- 6 Prejudice, Discrimination and a False Accusation
- US society and its criminal justice system
- Campus policing
- Control and compliance of colleges/universities
- Abuse on campus
- Urgency of the issues and 'epidemic' of cases
- Treatment of victims
- 'Private justice' in schools
- Campus scandals: and sexual abuse
- Sororities
- UVA and the real 'Seccuro' case
- False accusation: Jackie's complaint
- 7 Fraternity Abuse: College Athletics, Cynicism, Hypocrisy and Cowardice
- Sexual abuse at fraternity parties: Wesleyan and Baylor
- Athletics and abuse: Baylor
- Florida State University and Erica Kinsman
- 'An ecosystem of wilful ignorance': Nassar, MSU, USAG, USOC
- Stanford assault case and Chanel Miller
- Dominance of sport in US colleges and sexual abuse
- Cynicism, hypocrisy and cowardice
- 8 Conclusion: Reform, Care and Accountability
- Reform efforts
- No fraternities or reformed fraternities?