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Purpose
Campus sexual assault has received a great deal of media attention in recent years, with much focus being placed on the factors unique to universities that enable these crimes to occur. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the circumstances under which these crimes take place and examine the policies of institutions across the USA and Canada to determine whether legislation from various governmental levels impacts the prevalence and incidence rates of sexual assault.


Design/methodology/approach
A review of the literature on sexual assault is conducted to gain an understanding of the contributory factors in campus sexual assault, and fields outside of psychology are included in the search to capture phenomena outside the perpetrator-victim dyad.


Findings
The findings suggest that unique variables exist in campus culture including prevention and intervention strategies put in place by governments and individual universities. Some of these policies are aimed at providing victim services, while others engage faculty, staff, and students in taking action from a bystander standpoint.


Originality/value
This paper also investigates the impacts that mandatory policies would have across North America, and suggests future policy initiatives to reduce the deleterious effects of sexual assault for students and universities alike.

Abstract This study provides an analysis of the views of the legal community with respect to competency to stand trial statutes and procedures. Responses from North Carolina judges and defense attorneys reveal significant areas of disagreement or misunderstanding. While many judges believed that defense attorneys misunderstood or misused the competency procedures, the judges uniformly granted the motions. Defense attorneys indicated reasons for requesting competency evaluations that were frequently unrelated to concerns about competency. Hearings to determine competency were often not even held, and if a defendant was found to be incompetent. most judges believed that involuntary commitment to a mental institution should be automatic regardless of perceived dangerousness. The authors argue that these issues demand further attention and resolution to allow the competency laws to accomplish their intended goal without jeopardizing defendants' rights.

Psychology and Law -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Psychology and Law -- I Human Behavior in the Trial Process -- 2 Juries -- 3 Witnesses to Crime -- 4 Preventing Mistaken Convictions in Eyewitness Identification Trials -- II Forensic Assessment and Treatment -- 5 Forensic Assessment -- 6 Predicting Violence in Mentally and Personality Disordered Individuals -- 7 Forensic Treatment -- III Issues in Civil Law -- 8 Civil Law -- 9 Best Interests of the Child -- IV Ethics and Professional Issues -- 10 Preparing for Two Cultures -- 11 Ethical and Legal Contours of Forensic Psychology -- APPENDIX: SPECIALTY GUIDELINES FOR FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGISTS -- Index.