A review by indielitttttt
Campus Sex, Campus Security by Jennifer Doyle

4.0

So this is going to be a complicated review haha. This is a book length (119 page) essay that addresses the way college campuses, and more specifically, university bureaucracy, perpetuate harm on the campus and beyond. Doyle asserts that Title IX makes it mandatory for university’s to report crime data, but makes universities view crimes (most commonly sexual violence) as violations of the university rather than violations of the victim. She also uses examples of police brutality on campuses and school shootings to convey her point. Basically, it boils down to the university as an entity is only concerned with the well being of itself, and will do anything to protect its image, while the university sees students and faculty as expendable sources of money.
If this review was hard to read and comprehend, I get it. That’s what this book was like. It’s very VERY theoretical, and includes so many analogies and metaphors that it’s hard to keep up with. So while the info i was able to pull from it was good overall, it was far too hard to get at it. This is not an accessible text, which is unfortunate.
3.5/5⭐️