Resources

The following resources, from the COPS Office Resource Information Center, give useful insights into several persistent campus safety problems. You can order COPS publications and CDs by calling the COPS Response Center at 1-800-421-6770 or by using the COPS Publications Request Form . Many publications can also be read online or downloaded.

Drinking, Drugs and Related Issues

• Assaults In and Around Bars, 2nd Edition
• Drunk Driving
• Rave Parties
• Underage Drinking
• Student Party Riots

Campus Threat Assessment
In response to the threat of disturbed persons engaging in multiple acts of violence at institutions of higher education, the COPS Office commissioned Margolis, Healy & Associates to develop a one-day training course in campus threat assessment. This free course is designed mainly for local law enforcement, campus police and college administrators.

• The course — Campus Threat Assessment Training:A Multidisciplinary Approach for Institutions of Higher Education — is expected to be offered again in the second half of 2010.

• Margolis, Healy & Associates also offers for purchase The Handbook for Campus Threat Assessment Management Teams.

General Campus Safety and Crime Prevention

• Campus Safety CD-ROM
• National Summit on Campus Public Safety
• Planning and Managing Security For Major Special Events: Guidelines for Law Enforcement
• Planning and Managing Security For Major Special Events: Guidelines for Law Enforcement CD-ROM
• School Vandalism and Break-Ins
• Thefts of and from Cars in Parking Facilities 

Gender-Related Threats

• Acquaintance Rape of College Students
• Stalking