With a rash of school shootings in recent years, there has been a greater focus on-campus crime. College Crime: A Statistical Study of Offenses on American Campuses by R. Barri Flowers examines the breadth of serious criminality and victimization occurring on college and university campuses across the United States, placing special emphasis on the relationship between drug and alcohol use/abuse and criminal activities such as mass murder, rape/sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, hate crime, and campus security. The book also provides several victim resources and a guide to laws relevant to the prevention and deterrence of on-campus crime. College Crime is a great reference as well for thriller and mystery authors who choose the popular college setting for their tales.
R. Barri Flowers is an award winning literary criminologist and thriller writer. His books include the legal thrillers, State's Evidence, Justice Served, and Persuasive Evidence; as well as the bestselling true crime classic, The Sex Slave Murders. He has recently served as editor of the mystery anthology, American Crime Writers League: Murder Past, Murder Present, and contributed a noir tale, "The Wrong End of a Gun," to Seattle Noir, as part of the award winning Akashic Books Noir anthology series.
