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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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Lane College is a historically black college located in Jackson, Tennessee. Between 2011 and 2013, Lane’s average violent crime rate was 8.37 crimes per 1,000 students. The vast majority of these crimes were either aggravated assault or robbery. The school reported zero sexual assaults and one murder in that three-year period. Lane College is the only school on the list with a murder on its campus. In 2012, two men who were not students were involved in an altercation with a student, which led one of the men to accidentally shoot and kill his friend.
All crimes reported by the school go through campus security forces, as the school does not have a system for individual students to report incidents of crime independently. All security officers are TIBRS-trained, allowing them to report crimes to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in addition to the Department of Education. Campus security has an agreement with the Jackson Police Department to enable them to share resources and coordinate investigations.
Fall 2013 Enrollment: 1,554 (all undergraduate)
Average Violent Crime Rate: 8.37 per 1,000 students
Murder: 1
Forcible Sex Offense: 0
Robbery: 17
Aggravated Assault: 21
Campus Setting: City (Small)
-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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