Campus Crime Statistics

Crime Rates
The College and University Security Information Act (Act 73) requires that all Pennsylvania colleges and universities furnish students and employees with statistics regarding campus crimes, along with campus security practices.

Crime rates are indicators of reported crime activity standardized by population. They are more refined indicators for comparative purposes than are volume figures. The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Program provides three (3) types of crime rates: offense rates, arrest rates, and clearance rates. We will be using the offense rate.

An offense rate, defined as the number of offenses per 100,000 population, is derived by first dividing a jurisdiction's population by 100,000 and then dividing the number of offenses by the resulting figure.

A copy of the current crime statistics can be found in the brochure rack outside the Office of Campus Security & Safety, or on the college website:

Example:
a. Population of jurisdiction: 7,983.
b. Number of known specific offenses for jurisdiction for 2011.
Divide 7,983 by 100,000 = .07983
Divide 10 (thefts) by .07983 = 125.267

The offense rate for that specific offense is 198.37 per 100,000 people. The number .08570 can now be divided into the totals of any offense class to produce a crime rate for that offense.

The jurisdiction population for the college is based on student head count and full-time equivalent employees. (This population changes with every term.)

 

Crime Stats

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