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Crime
Campus Crime 2015: Top 10 Highest Reported Crime Rates for Mid-Sized Colleges
Student safety is a high priority for all colleges and universities. While colleges and universities are typically safer than the areas that surround them, many schools face important and unique challenges. Law Street's Campus Crime Rankings were created to serve as a comprehensive look at the safety of our college campuses, and to act as a resource for students, families, and college communities.
Federal law requires all postsecondary institutions that receive federal financial aid to report and monitor criminal offenses on their campuses. Each year this self-reported data is published by the Department of Education to help colleges and their communities understand the safety challenges that they face. Law Street Campus Crime Rankings utilize the most recent three years of this data to determine the average violent crime rate per 1,000 students for each school with available statistics.
Our rankings break up schools into different categories to ensure that the comparisons are as helpful and fair as possible. This list ranks mid-sized schools, which include four-year institutions with enrollments between 10,000 to 20,000 students.
Click here to see the data used to create these rankings.
Check out the Top 10 Highest Crime Rates on Mid-Sized Campuses below:
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Emory University is a private university located in a suburb of Atlanta. The majority of the school’s reported violent crime came from 59 forcible sex offenses, which make up more than 90 percent of its total violent crime. Emory is one of more than 100 colleges currently under Title IX investigations by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for potential federal law violations over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints. Beverly Clark, the school’s Senior Communications Officer, told the Emory Wheel that the investigation is a compliance review and is not in response to a specific complaint.
In an article on Emory’s News Center, Dean of Campus Live Ajay Nair attributed the increase in reported violent crime to the school’s efforts to increase education and awareness among the student body. Nair highlighted the Title IX Student Envisioning Board, which was initiated last summer to bring together student leaders from around campus to discuss sexual assault policies. Emory University has also offered programs such as the Respect Program, and Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention as a way of raising awareness and reducing sexual assault on campus. The Emory University Police Department has jurisdiction both on and off campus and works with several other law enforcement agencies including the Dekalb County and Atlanta Police Departments.
Nancy Seideman, a spokesperson for Emory University, told Law Street:
Emory University is committed to maintaining a safe environment, a responsibility that includes accurately reporting public safety statistics in order to protect and inform community members, while providing the resources necessary to foster a safe and healthy [environment] for all.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 14,513 (7,836 undergraduate)
Average Violent Crime Rate: 1.49 per 1,000 students
Murder: 0
Forcible Sex Offense: 59
Robbery: 1
Aggravated Assault: 5
Campus Setting: Suburb (Large)
-Campus crime statistics are three year totals from 2011, 2012, and 2013
-The average violent crime rate is an average of the three-year data shown as a rate per 1,000 students
Click here to see the methodology used for the rankings.
Research and analysis done by Law Street’s Crime in America team:
Kevin Rizzo, Kwame Apea, Jennie Burger, Alissa Gutierrez, and Maurin Mwombela.
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