Clery Act Research Paper

The Clery Act The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (The Clery Act) came out of one family’s tragedy on April 5, 1986 and became a defining moment for campus safety issues across the country, specifically across higher education institutions’ campuses (Colaner, 2006). The night of April 5, 1986 was the night that Jeanne Ann Clery was brutally attacked, raped, and sodomized before a fellow student murdered her in her residence hall. In the wake of their daughter’s tragic death, Clery’s parents learned that hundreds of other criminal acts had occurred on Clery’s campus in the past few years, yet the university failed to provide any acceptable safety measures or warn its students of potential danger on campus (Colaner, 2006). The end result of their fight for justice for their daughter, and to prevent future criminal acts from being hidden or unreported, is The Clery Act. This federal mandate requires data collection and dissemination of campus crime statistics by colleges and universities, as well as outlines the ways in which college and university staff and faculty should be trained and educated both on how to report, in compliance with The Cleary Act, as well as how such training and education should be presented (Talesh, 2007, p. iv). The Clery Act has also been a springboard for

559). There theory consists of four consecutive stages that a higher education institution will go through throughout the process of implementing an unfunded federal mandate, as well as outlining a multitude of variables and factors that may hold influence before, during, and after each stage of implementation. Figure 1 below is a visual representation of this