Crime On Campus - Elite Private Universities

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<p>On-campus crime 2006 from IPEDS</p>

<p>crimes include:
Weapons
Drugs
Liquor
Robbery
Rape
Aggravated Assault
Burglary
Motor Veh Theft
Arson</p>

<p>school, undergrad enrollment, total crimes, enrollment divided by crimes</p>

<p>I chose undergrad enrollment because I just don't think grad students commit many offenses. What do you think?</p>

<p>I don't see a relationship between crime and urban campuses.
I can break this down by type of crime.</p>

<p>sorted with "safest" campuses at the top</p>

<p>Georgetown 6630 28 237
Cornell 13562 60 226
Penn 9464 54 175
Boston College 9020 90 100
Princeton 4790 57 84
Brown 5750 71 81
Duke 6294 88 72
Chicago 4678 74 63
Wake Forest 4236 92 46
Yale 5304 122 43
Northwestern 7989 188 42
Columbia 6399 153 42
Vanderbilt 6304 172 37
Rice 2977 89 33
Notre Dame 8338 297 28
Dartmouth 4036 147 27
Stanford 6392 242 26
Harvard 6712 297 23</p>

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<p>
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I chose undergrad enrollment because I just don't think grad students commit many offenses. What do you think?

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Is this a measure of how criminal the student body is? Or does it measure crimes committed against students?</p>

<p>And in either case, can someone explain how Hanover, NH is somehow less safe than the south side of Chicago?</p>

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<p>Big difference between on-campus crime and crime just off-campus.</p>

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<p>Could you redo your analysis without "liquor"? Liquor is easily accessible on almost every campus; liquor "crime" rate is a proportional to how much the local/campus police enforce it on/near campus.</p>

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<p>"And in either case, can someone explain how Hanover, NH is somehow less safe than the south side of Chicago?"</p>

<p>That's easy. The vast majority of crimes on campus are committed by student criminals. This includes 70,000 rapes and 600,000+ sexual assaults per year, most of which go unreported.</p>

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<p>excluding liquor law offenses</p>

<p>sorted with "safest" campus on top</p>

<p>Cornell 13562 46 295
Georgetown 6630 28 237
Penn 9464 54 175
Notre Dame 8338 70 119
Boston College 9020 89 101
Princeton 4790 57 84
Brown 5750 71 81
Duke 6294 87 72
Dartmouth 4036 63 64
Chicago 4678 74 63
Wake Forest 4236 90 47
Yale 5304 119 45
Northwestern 7989 184 43
Rice 2977 69 43
Columbia 6399 153 42
Vanderbilt 6304 166 38
Stanford 6392 204 31
Harvard 6712 297 23</p>

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<p>If you look at news from the past year or two, there have been several violent crimes involving Penn grad students.</p>

<p>These are meaningless statistics. The schools really fudge their numbers.</p>

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<p>What is your basis for saying schools fudge their numbers? I don't think you really know this. Schools are required under the law to report all crimes. They face penalties if they don't. It is federal law.</p>

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<p>MOWC, the crimes to which you refer did not occur on campus (or anywhere near it, in some cases), and they occurred over the past several years, not one or two. And I'm not sure what you mean by "several" violent crimes--I can remember fewer than 5 over the past 10 years.</p>

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<p>FBI</a> Stats Show Many Colleges Understate Campus Crime - WSJ.com</p>

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<p>These stats don't jive. I mean I love Penn, but any statistic that shows Penn being a safer place than Princeton is clearly off-base.</p>

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<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>

<p>
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Big difference between on-campus crime and crime just off-campus.

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<p>OPE</a> Campus Security Statistics Search Page</p>

<p>Data base compiled by US Department Of Education</p>

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<p>Are we talking about how likely a student is to commit a crime? Or how safe the the campus is?</p>