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July 8, 2001
Fresno State Crime Data
University
Stats Paint Dark Future
Amy Williams, Staff
Writer
FRESNO CAMPUS - - The following
table contains statistics from the crime reports published by
CSU Fresno for students in academic 1997-98. The crime data for
1998 cover s calendar year 1998 or academic year 1998-99; the
figures for 1997 cover calendar year 1997 or academic year 1997-98.
| California State University, Fresno |
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Reported
Incidents
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Forcible
sex offenses |
Nonforcible
sex offenses |
Robbery |
Aggravated
assault |
Burglary |
Motor-vehicle
theft |
Arson |
Hate
crimes |
| 1998 |
3 |
6 |
2 |
14 |
100 |
32 |
-- |
0 |
| 1997 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
15 |
62 |
57 |
-- |
2 |
| CSU, Fresno 1997
enrollment: 18,113 |
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Arrests
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Liquor-law violations |
Drug |
Weapons |
| 1998 |
40 |
26 |
6 |
| 1997 |
20 |
31 |
7
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Under the Student Right-to-Know and Campus
Security Act of 1990, and later amendments, colleges and universities
are required to publish statistics in 10 categories: incidents of
murder, forcible or nonforcible sex offenses, robbery, aggravated
assault, burglary, and motor-vehicle theft; and arrests for liquor-,
drug-, and weapons-law violations.
The law was amended by the Higher Education
Act of 1992 to replace the rape statistics with data for forcible
and nonforcible sex offenses.
Many institutions now report those, but
some continue to report rape only. Under legislation passed in 1998,
the campus-security act was renamed the Jeanne Clery Disclosure
of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, and
it was amended to require institutions to also disclose annually
the number of incidents of manslaughter, arson, and hate crimes,
and disciplinary referrals for liquor-, drug-, and weapons-law violations.
Institutions are required to begin including
statistics for those categories in their 1999 reports, but many
institutions included the figures in their 1998 reports. Because
of inconsistencies, the statistics for sex crimes are hard to compare.
Nonforcible offenses are supposed to include only incest and statutory
rape, but some colleges mistakenly reported other offenses in the
category.
Some institutions also included in their
arrest data tickets or citations that were considered "arrests,"
even though they did not involve a person's being taken into custody.
Dashes instead of numbers in an institution's statistics indicate
that information was not available.
In many cases, the institution did not
provide data for a certain category. The composition of the sample
has changed slightly from the previous year because some colleges
fell below the enrollment threshold, and others met it.
Experts on campus crime warn that comparisons
among institutions must be undertaken with caution. The crime reports
do not consider the nature of the institutions (rural or urban,
residential or commuter).
In addition, institutions with highly professional
police departments may pursue crime more aggressively than do those
that handle most incidents through a campus judicial system. High
numbers may not mean that a campus is less safe than others.
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