A cursory reading of the history of U.S. colleges and universities reveals that violence, vice, and victimization campus crime has been part of collegiate life since the Colonial Era. It was not until the late 1980s some 250 years later that campus crime suddenly became an issue on the public stage. Drawing from numerous mass media and scholarly sources and using a theoretical framework grounded in social constructionism, The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower chronicles how four groups of activists college student advocates, feminists, victims and their families, and public health experts used a...