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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol
Bristol University Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
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| Summary: | 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, accountability and the support for survivors. 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. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781529228120 |