Are campus crimes exaggerated?
Anne Hendershott has a provocative Chicago Tribune op-ed arguing that a University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s bogus claims being abducted at knifepoint and enduring a five-day “imprisonment” are more common on campuses than many would think: Duke University, Eastern New Mexico University, Northwestern University, San Francisco State, Guilford College, Miami University of Ohio, Iowa State and ...
Anne Hendershott has a provocative Chicago Tribune op-ed arguing that a University of Wisconsin-Madison student's bogus claims being abducted at knifepoint and enduring a five-day "imprisonment" are more common on campuses than many would think:
Anne Hendershott has a provocative Chicago Tribune op-ed arguing that a University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s bogus claims being abducted at knifepoint and enduring a five-day “imprisonment” are more common on campuses than many would think:
Duke University, Eastern New Mexico University, Northwestern University, San Francisco State, Guilford College, Miami University of Ohio, Iowa State and the University of Georgia are just the most recent campuses dealing with serious crime fabrications. And, while most campus hoaxes involve “student-victims,” the elite Claremont McKenna College recently found itself a victim of a faculty-perpetrated fraud when Kerri Dunn, a visiting psychology professor at the school, claimed to have been the victim of a hate crime. According to Dunn’s initial crime report, someone had spray painted “shut up” on the hood of her car as it was parked in a college lot. She claimed that she was being silenced for speaking out against racism on the campus and that racist and anti-Semitic slurs on the roof and sides of her vehicle were proof of the racism that pervaded the Claremont campus. Dunn received all the accolades that victims receive on college campuses. Campus administrators shut down the Claremont consortium of colleges for a day of anti-hate rallies and called in the FBI to investigate. By the time two eyewitnesses said that Dunn had damaged her own car, she had become a campus heroine.
Read the whole article — Hendershott addresses rape cases as well.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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