Prawne aspekty przeciwdziałania przestępczości kampusowej w szkołach wyższych w USA

Abstract

This article discusses the legal aspects of campus crime prevention in colleges and universities in the United States. The issue of campus crime has not yet been presented in the Polish legal writings. The author of this paper recognized the importance of expanding the knowledge on this subject given the importance of this topic in view of interesting solutions deployed by the American legislature. The paper presents selected symptoms of campus crime as well as the results of the analysis of four federal legal acts that aim at counteracting the problem of campus crime. The research was conducted using three research methods: a method of analysis and criticism of the legal literature, a dogmatic method and a method of analysis of secondary data. The research has led to a finding that, in the area of campus crime, the growing sexual and hate crimes pose a serious problem. However, the U.S. legislature is fighting against this phenomenon by requiring universities to strictly control campus crime by collecting information about each such case and informing the university community and the relevant law enforcement agencies as well as the U.S. Department of Education about it.