On the Wrong Side (eBook)

How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence

Nicole Bedera (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
320 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39590-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This explosive investigation reveals the profound failures of the Title IX system and identifies concrete, surprisingly simple steps we can take to protect students.
 
The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetrators, and the administrators who oversaw their cases, sociologist Nicole Bedera exposes the structures that predictably punish survivors who come forward in the service of protecting—or even rewarding—their perpetrators. In doing so, she reveals that the system tasked with ending gender inequality on campus only intensifies it, upending survivors' lives and threatening the degrees that brought them to college in the first place.
 
Equally heartbreaking and optimistic, On the Wrong Side makes it easy to imagine life-changing interventions for the next generation of students by proposing specific solutions to the structural problems of Title IX. Bedera proves that ending campus sexual violence is within our grasp—and dares us to be courageous enough to take action.
 

Inhalt

Contents

Author’s Note 

Introduction 

PART ONE. DISAPPEARING REPORTS: WHY THERE ARE SO FEW TITLE IX CASES
1. Lexie: Overwhelmed by Bad Choices 
2. A Heavy Burden: The Pressure Survivors Feel to Spare Their Perpetrators 
3. The Illusion of Choice: How Schools Steer Survivors Away from Investigations 

PART TWO. “NEUTRAL” BUT NOT EQUAL: STUDENT EXPERIENCES OF INVESTIGATIONS
4. Marissa: Victim and Villain 
5. Stacking the Deck: The System That Protects Perpetrators 
6. Never Enough Evidence: The Failures of Title IX Investigations 
7. The Fallout: The Unequal Impact of Investigations

PART THREE. THE COVER-UP: HOW EVERYONE COMES TO ACCEPT INJUSTICE
8. Chelsea and Elliott: A Deafening Silence 
9. The Myth of Hysterical Women Ruining Lives: Administrators Rationalize Their  (In)Actions
10. Gaslit and Silenced: Survivors Learn to Blame Themselves 
11. Keep Fighting or Graduate: How Universities Demand Survivors’ Compliance 

PART FOUR. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: FULFILLING THE BROKEN PROMISES OF TITLE IX
12. A Better Way: Creating a System That Supports Survivors 

Acknowledgments 
Appendix A. Methods 
Appendix B. Featured Student Participant Demographics 
Appendix C. Staff Participant Demographics 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: administrators • broken system • campus safety • College • Compliance • Controversy • higher education • Institutional failure • investigation • know my name chanel miller • Me Too Movement • mishandling • Rape Culture • Resolution • Solutions • student support • systems of accountability • University Title IX offices • Victim Advocate • Victimization • violence survivors
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39590-5 / 0520395905
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39590-9 / 9780520395909