NCJ Number
132566
Journal
Law and Order Volume: 39 Issue: 9 Dated: (September 1991) Pages: 141-146
Date Published
1991
Length
6 pages
Annotation
Colleges and universities throughout the United States are responding to increasing campus crime and concern regarding liability by improving the size, training, and equipment of campus police and conducting crime prevention programs and risk analyses.
Abstract
The trend away from security guards and toward full-service police functions has resulted from several factors. These include the reduction of the age of majority from 21 to 18, the advent of coeducational dormitories and relaxation of taboos on premarital sexual intimacy, drug abuse, the general naivete of college students, and institutions' reluctance to report crime. In addition, the efforts of advocacy groups and concerns about lawsuits have prompted many institutions to strengthen physical security measures, provide counseling before and after incidents, add escort services, use computerized dispatch centers, and take other actions to improve campus security. Photographs