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Crime
Campus Crime 2015: Top 10 Highest Reported Crime Rates for Small 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 small schools, which include four-year institutions with enrollments between 1,500 to 10,000 students.
Click here to see the data used to create these rankings.
Check out the Top 10 Highest Crime Rates on Small Campuses below:
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Central State University is a historically black university located in Wilberforce, Ohio. The vast majority of reported crimes at Central State are aggravated assaults, which make up more than 90 percent of the school’s total crime. Nearly half of CSU’s 49 aggravated assaults that occurred between 2011 and 2013 happened in on-campus housing facilities.
At CSU, 56 percent of students live on campus or in campus-owned housing, which is under the direct jurisdiction of the school’s police department. CSU police have an agreement with local law enforcement agencies that allows them to coordinate investigations and share resources with other departments. All Central State officers also have full sworn law enforcement authority. The CSU police force reports its crime statistics to both the Department of Education and directly to the FBI using the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS), which allows for a detailed analysis of campus crime. The university uses a system called Silent Witness, which enables victims and witnesses to anonymously report crimes to campus police.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 2,068 (2,036 undergraduate)
Average Violent Crime Rate: 8.54 per 1,000 students
Murder: 0
Forcible Sex Offense: 3
Robbery: 1
Aggravated Assault: 49
Campus Setting: Rural (Fringe)
-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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