STATISTICAL INFORMATION

A federal law, the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, establishes the requirements for collecting and reporting campus crime statistics. The classifications of crimes used in these reports are defined in the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation Unified Crime Reports or, for sex offenses, the National Incident Based Reporting System. The following is the report of statistics for years 2008 through 2010.

 

 

 

1. This includes offenses that were reported to the Houston Police Department on the streets and sidewalks
immediately adjacent to the Rice University campus and includes Greenbriar Street, University Boulevard, Rice Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Dryden, Travis and Main Street.

2. Residential facilities statistics also are included in the “on- campus” statistics.

3. Referrals are to university judicial processes. Figures reflect regulatory clarifications.

 

HATE CRIMES

For the categories of crime listed above and for crimes of larceny-theft, simple assault, intimidation, destruction/damage/vandalism of property and any crime perpetrated on the basis of prejudice that results in bodily injury, the university is required to report hate crimes by category of prejudice, geographic location, year the incident was reported and category of crime. However, for the years covered by this report (2008, 2009 and 2010), Rice University has received no reports of crimes that fit these criteria.

 

Definitions of geographical categories:

A. On campus means

1. any building or property owned or controlled by an institution of higher education within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution’s educational purposes, including residential halls, and
   
2. property within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution that is owned by the institution, but controlled by another person, is used by students and supports institutional purposes (such as a food or other retail vendor).
   
   

B. Noncampus (building or property) means

1. any building or property owned or controlled by a student organizationrecognized by the institution, and
2. any building or property (other than a branch campus) owned or controlled byan institution of higher education that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the institution’s educational purposes, is used by students and is not within
   the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution.
   
   C. Public property means all property that is within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution, such as a sidewalk, a street, other thoroughfare or parking facility, and is adjacent to a facility owned or controlled by the institution if the facility is used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to,the institution’s educational purposes.