Crime and Deviance in the Colleges: Elite Student Excess and Sexual Abuse

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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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1. VerfasserIn: Punch, Maurice 1941- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Bristol Bristol University Press 2022
In:Jahr: 2022
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Universität > College > Student > Alltag > Burschenschaft > Abweichendes Verhalten > Kriminalität > Sexueller Missbrauch
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISBN:9781529228120