Waubonsee Community College

The crisis of campus sexual violence, critical perspectives on prevention and response, edited by Sara Carrigan Wooten and Roland W. Mitchell

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The crisis of campus sexual violence

bibliography

910914731

edited by Sara Carrigan Wooten and Roland W. Mitchell

critical perspectives on prevention and response

"Although awareness of campus sexual assault is at a historic high, institutional responses to incidents of sexual violence remain widely varied. The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence provides higher education scholars, administrators, and practitioners with a necessary and more holistic understanding of the challenges that colleges and universities face in implementing adequate and effective sexual assault prevention and response practices. In this volume, a diverse mix of expert contributors provide a critical, nuanced, and timely examination of some of the factors that inhibit effective prevention and response in higher education. Chapter authors take on one of the most troubling aspects of higher education today, bridging theory and practice to offer programmatic interventions and solutions to help institutions address their own competing interests and institutional culture to improve their practices and policies with regard to sexual violence"--Back cover