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Why are there so many escalations with the police on campus? Paul A. Hernandez

October 7, 2015

Why wearing sagging pants on a college campus becomes a criminal offense

John J Sloan, III, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Routine interrogations between police officers and students have escalated into physical conflicts. Why do such escalations occur?

And what are universities doing about it? Wolfram Burner

August 13, 2015

Here’s how rape on campus remains a hidden crime

Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University

Do university and college websites give students enough information about how to prevent and respond to sexual assaults on campus? Here's a reality check.

It was only in the seventies that campus police came to be formally recognized. C Holmes

August 3, 2015

After Cincinnati, the big question: who are the campus police, anyway?

John J Sloan, III, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Campus police have been in existence for only about 40 years or so. But they are taking on an ever bigger role.

Top contributors

John J Sloan, III
Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice and Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Elizabeth Englander
Professor of Psychology, and the Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC), Bridgewater State University