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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Jeanne Clery, murder, violent crimes, college students

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Communications

Abstract

On April 5, 1986, 19-year-old Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her residence hall room at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. The crime was opportunistic and random; Clery’s bedroom was unlocked and the perpetrator was another student whom she didn’t know. After her murder, Jeanne’s parents discovered that students and parents hadn’t been told about nearly 40 violent crimes that happened at Lehigh in the three years before the murder. Disturbed by the ignorance that contributed to their daughter’s death, the Clery’s — along with other campus crime victims — persuaded Congress to create the “Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990.” It has since been revised and renamed in memory of Jeanne Clery. This federal law requires all public and private institutions of post-secondary education participating in federal student aid programs (which includes BYU) to disclose certain crime information to college students and faculty. If colleges are found out of compliance with the act, they can be fined by the U.S. Department of Education.

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