Rapes occur with frightening frequency on college campuses devastating the victims, cultivating fear, and attracting negative media attention and costly lawsuits. Proactive preventive measures plus swift response to assaults are the keys to crisis management.

This pamphlet is broken down into three main sections - stranger, date and gang rape - offering case studies from institutions that faced assaults, so you know how they stemmed negative media attention and lawsuits.

You also discover your colleagues' proven prevention strategies - to keep your entire campus community safe and your institution out of legal hot water. Discuss the techniques with staff in residence life and campus security departments, as well as students. You learn ways to: Ensure a smooth flow of information following an assault, which will keep the media at bay; Increase the chance of catching the perpetrator using off-campus patrolling; Develop a policy that balances the rights of the accused with those of the victim; And much more.

Plus, you get an easy-to-read look at lawsuits involving campus rapes - so you know why colleges have been held liable and how you can avoid that liability.