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Abstract: 

For decades now, colleges and universities across the country have been well versed in creating, implementing, and enforcing effective policy in certain areas. This has been clearly demonstrated with respect to policies pertaining to cheating and plagiarism. In many institutions, these policies are a common thread that is required to be included in the syllabus of every course. Violation of the plagiarism policy often results in mandatory expulsion. The question that colleges and universities must address is why similar clear-cut policies and sanctions are almost nonexistent for students committing violent crimes on those same campuses.

Keywords: Title IV Institutions; Title IX; intimate partner violence; Yeardley Love; stalking; International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Threat Assessment Instrument; “Dear Colleague Letter”; rape; sexual assault; sexual battery; s

Affiliations:  1: Domestic Violence Education Program at Johns Hopkins University.