College Liability Resulting from Campus Crime: Resurrection for "In Loco Parentis?".

Smith, Michael Clay

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Publication Date: 1990

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College Liability Resulting from Campus Crime: Resurrection for "In Loco Parentis?"

Smith, Michael Clay

West's Education Law Reporter, v59 n1 p1-5 May 10 1990

Cites four cases illustrating that college institutions and individual administrators who fail to take adequate protective steps or give adequate warning of risks may be liable, in damage suits, to student victims of subsequent campus criminal activities. (MLF)

Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Students, Court Litigation, Higher Education, Legal Responsibility, State Courts, Victims of Crime

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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners

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