Crisis on Campus presents an overview of the
phenomenon and handling of academic misconduct. After a brief historical background,
it discusses contemporary circumstances that affect the nature and frequency of
academic misconduct. It then details the phases of misconduct discovery and
investigation: detection, analysis, assessment, reporting, and institutional
handling. The final chapter deals with prevention. The book focuses on concrete
cases, showing the complexities and ambiguities in dealing with presumed academic
misconduct. The book also provides practical advice to both whistle-blowers and
those accused of academic misconduct.

The book pays special
attention to plagiarism as one of the most frequent but also most complex forms of
academic misconduct. It analyzes the various degrees of possible plagiarism,
detection techniques, challenges in proving plagiarism, and denial tactics. It gives
valuable advice on how to report and handle cases of alleged plagiarism, both by
students and by professionals.