The last year has seen a revolt against the recommendations of the Zellick Report (1994) in England and Wales, and pressure on universities worldwide to bring serious criminal conduct within their own disciplinary structures. This paper examines the reasons why the Zellick Report advised against this, and why higher-education institutions have now turned their back on a number of its recommendations. Factors including student pressure and concerns about low conviction rates for sexual offences in the criminal courts have been cited, but this paper argues that universities will struggle to create a disciplinary system that is fair to both those who are accused of such offences and those who have been victims of them. A recent Universities UK report has reversed the Zellick guidance that conduct amounting to a serious criminal offence should never be pursued under university disciplinary structures. Drawing on both authors’ experiences as practitioners, and using the first author's experience of university disciplinary matters as a case-study, this paper reviews the practical problems of bringing such serious conduct under university disciplinary structures, focusing particularly on the intersection of criminal and internal disciplinary proceedings. It concludes by suggesting possible ways of ameliorating these.

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纪律保护伞下的过度拥挤：调查和惩处大学性行为不端案件的挑战

去年，英格兰和威尔士出现了反对泽利克报告（1994）的建议，世界各地的大学都面临着将严重犯罪行为纳入其学科结构的压力。本文探讨了泽利克报告反对这样做的原因，以及为什么高等教育机构现在拒绝了它的一些建议。包括学生压力和对刑事法庭性犯罪定罪率低的担忧在内的因素已被引用，但本文认为，大学将努力建立一个对被指控犯有此类罪行的人和曾经犯过此类罪行的人都公平的纪律制度。成为他们的受害者。英国大学最近的一份报告推翻了泽利克的指导意见，即在大学纪律结构下绝不应追究构成严重刑事犯罪的行为。本文借鉴两位作者作为从业者的经验，并以第一作者在大学学科事务方面的经验作为案例研究，回顾了将此类严重行为纳入大学学科结构的实际问题，特别关注刑事和内部的交叉问题。纪律处分程序。最后，它提出了改善这些问题的可能方法。本文回顾了将此类严重行为纳入大学纪律架构的实际问题，特别关注刑事和内部纪律程序的交叉点。最后，它提出了改善这些问题的可能方法。本文回顾了将此类严重行为纳入大学纪律架构的实际问题，特别关注刑事和内部纪律程序的交叉点。最后，它提出了改善这些问题的可能方法。