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Dowdall, George W.
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College students -- Alcohol use -- United States.
Young adults -- Alcohol use -- United States.
Alcoholism -- United States -- Prevention.
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College drinking : r...
College drinking : reframing a social problem / George W. Dowdall.
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Dowdall, George W.
Subjects
College students -- Alcohol use -- United States.
Young adults -- Alcohol use -- United States.
Alcoholism -- United States -- Prevention.
Publisher Info:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
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xvii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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9780275999810 (alk. paper)
0275999815 (alk. paper)
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: College drinking as a social problem -- 2: Reframing college drinking -- 3: Impact of college drinking -- 4: Dark figure of alcohol-related campus crime: the gap between reported incidents and victimization -- 5: Work hard, play hard: college drinking, social life, and sex -- 6: Public alcohol policy and college drinking -- 7: College response: reframing prevention -- 8: What more can colleges do? -- 9: How to cope with college drinking: what students and parents can do -- Appendix A: Sources for further information -- Appendix B: Methods of data -- Appendix C: Timeline of important events shaping college drinking -- Appendix D: Alcohol and crime data for selected colleges and institutions -- References -- Index.
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From the Publisher: Drinking has become recognized as one of the most important problems facing today's college student. Even though college drinking has increased only modestly over the past few decades, concern about its health, behavioral, and safety consequences has risen rapidly. This book examines college drinking as a social problem within higher education, based on interviews with many leading figures engaged in addressing the problem. It assesses the evidence about how many students drink or drink excessively, and what kinds of behavioral and health problems they have as a consequence. The book answers the crucial questions of why students drink and what mixture of personal and environmental factors shape college drinking. The complex links to campus crime and sexual assault are discussed fully. Key practical questions about effective prevention programs and countermeasures are answered in detail. Students and parents can take action to lower the risk of binge drinking by consulting an appendix, which explains how to use college guide data on 400 leading institutions or data about alcohol violations and crime available for several thousand colleges. Anyone concerned with higher education today will find a full discussion of the scope of the problem and what can be done about it. Drinking has become recognized as one of the most important problems facing today's college student. Even though college drinking has increased only modestly over the past few decades, concern about its health, behavioral, and safety consequences has risen rapidly. This book examines college drinking as a social problem within higher education, based on interviews with many leading figures engaged in addressing the problem. It explains how high-risk drinking is defined, and assesses the evidence about how many students are binge drinkers and what kinds of behavioral and health problems they have as a consequence. The book also answers the crucial questions of why students binge drink and what mixture of personal and environmental factors produce binge drinking. The complex links to campus crime and sexual assault are discussed fully. Key practical questions about effective prevention programs and countermeasures are discussed in detail. Students and parents can take action to lower the risk of binge drinking by following the book's recommendations and by consulting its appendix, which explains how to use institutional data about alcohol violations and crime, which is available for several thousand colleges. Likewise, administrators, trustees, and faculty will find a full discussion of the scope of the problem and what can be done about it. This volume examines binge drinking as a social problem within higher education.
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