Unsafe in the Ivory Tower

Bonnie S. Fisher is a Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice and Research Fellow in the Center for Criminal Justice Research at the University of Cincinnati. Professor Fisher received her Ph.D. (1988) in Political Science from Northwestern University. She is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of sexual, violent and stalking victimization of college women, including repeat victimization, self-protection effectiveness, and fear of crime, and how post-secondary schools' respond to reports of sexual victimization. She has authored more than 150 publications in national and international peer-reviewed criminology, criminal justice, crime prevention, gerontology, legal, medical, methodological, nursing, urban planning, public administration, psychology, security, and victimology periodicals. She also has edited three volumes that focus on victimization issues: Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention; Campus Crime (with Steven P. Lab); Legal, Social and Political Perspectives, 2nd edition (with John Sloan, III); Violence Against Women and Family Violence; and Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy. She has been the co-editor of the Security Journal since 1998. She has served as the Deputy Editor of Justice Quarterly and since 2008 has been the Associate Editor of the Journal of Research Crime and Delinquency. She has been the Principal Investigator or Co-PI on several U.S. Department of Justice grants examining a range of college student victimization issues and on a grant from the British Home Office to examine college student victimization in the East Midlands, United Kingdom. Currently she is a Co-PI on a National Institute of Health grant examining forensic sexual examinations and the use of digital images and staining techniques to enhance the detection of injuries and the use of digital images in decision making among the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and juries in the criminal justice process. Leah E. Daigle is associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. She received her PhD in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2005. Her most recent research has centered on repeat sexual victimization of college women and responses women use during and after being sexually victimized. Her other research interests include the development and continuation of offending and victimization across the life course. She is author of Victimology: A Text/Reader, coauthor of Criminals in the Making: Criminality Across the Life Course and Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women, which was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. She has also published numerous peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in outlets such as Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Inter-personal Violence, and Victims and Offenders. Francis T. Cullen is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, where he also holds an appointment as Senior Research Associate. He received a Ph.D. (1979) in sociology and education from Columbia University. Professor Cullen has published more than 300 works in the areas of criminological theory, corrections, white-collar crime, public opinion, and the measurement of sexual victimization. He is author of Rethinking Crime and Deviance Theory: The Emergence of a Structuring Tradition and is coauthor of Reaffirming Rehabilitation, Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond, Criminology, Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work, Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences, and Environmental Corrections: A New Paradigm for Supervising Offenders in the Community. He also is coeditor of Criminological Theory: Past to Present-Essential Readings, Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory, The Origins of American Criminology, the Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory, The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory, The American Prison: Imagining a Different Future, Challenging Criminological Theory: The Legacy of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser, and Sisters in Crime Revisited: Bringing Gender into Criminology. Professor Cullen is a Past President of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. In 2010, he received the ASC Edwin H. Sutherland Award.

1. The Discovery of Sexual Victimization Beyond Real Rape Sexual Victimization in Context The Hidden Figure of Rape Specially Designed Victimization Surveys Koss's Sexual Experiences Survey One in Four: Publicizing the Rape Epidemic Two Critiques What's Ahead 2. Beyond the Culture Wars: The Measurement of Sexual Victimization The National Crime Victimization Survey How the NCVS Measures Victimization The First Step in Measuring Sexual Victimization: The NCVS Screen Questions The Second Step in Measuring Sexual Victimization: The NCVS Incident Report Measuring Sexual Victimization: The Next Generation The National Women's Study The National Violence Against Women Survey The National College Women's Sexual Victimization Study Revisiting the Koss-Gilbert Debate Comparing Two Studies Conclusion 3. The Risk of Rape: Unsafe in the Ivory Tower? Coming to College as a Rape Victim Rape During the College Years: Koss Revisited The National College Women's Sexual Victimization Study Is College a Risk Factor? Forms of Rape The Role of Drugs and Alcohol Conclusion 4. Beyond Rape: The Pervasiveness of Sexual Victimization Moving Beyond the Study of Rape Categorizing Sexual Victimization Sexual Coercion Unwanted Sexual Contact Non-Contact Sexual Abuse Conclusion 5. It Happened Again: Sexual Revictimization Crime Revictimization Sexual Revictimization Sexual Revictimization Among College Women: The NCWSV Study Why Does Sexual Revictimization Occur? Findings from the NCWSV Study Conclusion 6. Victim Secrets: Acknowledging and Reporting Sexual Victimization Acknowledging Victimization What Do Unacknowledged Victims Call It? Consequences of Acknowledgement Factors Related to Acknowledgement Reporting Sexual Victimization to the Police The Importance of Reporting Why Don't College Women Report Sexual Victimization? Factors That Influence Reporting Reporting to Other People: Telling Friends Conclusion 7. Being Pursued: The Stalking of Female Students Opportunities for Stalking Research on the Extent of Stalking Measuring Stalking in the NCWSV Study The Extent of Stalking The Nature of Stalking Who Is At Risk of Being Stalked? How Do Victims React? Conclusion 8. Creating Safe Havens: Preventing Sexual Victimization Two Themes Three Approaches for Preventing Victimization Opportunity-Reduction Approach: Situational Crime Prevention Preventing Stalking Conclusion

"Unsafe in the Ivory Tower is a major contribution at multiple levels. It advances the body of knowledge and strengthens the empirical rigor in a vital area of research. The book will also serve as a critical policy resource for colleges and universities who are tasked with providing environments for safe living and learning by our nation's young women. Its finest contribution, however, will be evidenced in the lives of women across this country whose experience of higher education may be safer and unstained by exposure to sexual violence." -- Carol E. Jordan "Based on rigorous survey research that meets the highest scientific standards, this timely book challenges the notion that colleges are "ivory towers" or peaceful sanctuaries from the "real world." Fisher, Daigle, and Cullen make it completely clear that a substantial number of women on college campuses experience serious harms that would fit most states' definitions of felony rape or sexual assault. This book is mandatory reading for anyone seeking a rich, empirically informed understanding of one of society's most compelling social problems." -- Walter S. DeKeseredy "Thought provoking....Some of the most comprehensive, evidence-based research on campus violence against women, with a refreshing look at potential strategies. With eye-opening, hard scientific data, this book answers most of the quintessential questions and will no doubt play a pivotal role in future research and prevention." -- Amy I. Cass Unsafe in the Ivory Tower is truly a comprehensive overview and analysis of sexual victimization. It is theoretically grounded and provides an extensive and critical review of sexual victimization research, both within and beyond the ivory tower. -- Amy Brown Unsafe in the Ivory Tower is truly a comprehensive overview and analysis of sexual victimization. It is theoretically grounded and provides an extensive and critical review of sexual victimization research, both within and beyond the ivory tower. -- Amy L. Brown "While there is not a lack of books and articles available that discuss sexual victimization, this particular text provides a valuable contribution to the literature as it focuses on an often ignored victim of this offense." -- Catherine D. Marcum "While there is not a lack of books and articles available that discuss sexual victimization, this particular text provides a valuable contribution to the literature as it focuses on an often ignored victim of this offense." -- Catherine D. Marcum