Cause And Effects Of The Clery Act

Cause and Effects of the Clery Act The Clery Act was put into place in 1990 by Howard and Constance Clery after their daughter Jeanne was raped and murdered at Lehigh University. The Clery Act requires colleges and universities to record and report all crimes, their date, and specificity of the violation that takes place on campus. The purpose of this act is to better educate students about the unlawful acts that could take place on their campuses; all campuses want to provide a safe, danger-free environment for everyone. Since then the security and safety on college campuses is becoming an even bigger concern for many college students and faculty. With the growing use of alcohol and drugs on school property, security is more challenged than ever before. Recent reports have proven that 90% of all reported campus rapes occur when alcohol is being used by either the assailant or the victim (Hansen 1). Although people believe that college students can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, tragedies can be prevented by knowledge of college crime rates and by taking higher security precautions. Jeanne was the only
They were unaware of the recent crimes that had occurred at their newly chosen college. Five days after dropping Jeanne back off after Spring break of her freshman year in 1986 she was found dead in her third-floor dorm, raped and murdered by a fellow student, Josoph M. Henry, trying to rob her dorm after losing an election in a black student union and going on a drinking binge. Before the death of Jeanne Clery, there were no laws enforcing colleges to report crimes on campus. The family decided to pursue a $25 million dollar lawsuit against Lehigh against the college for security negligence. The suit was settled out of court (the family is prohibited from disclosing the amount) (Gross, Fine