Clery Crime Definitions

The Jeanne Clery Act requires colleges and universities report campus crime data. To help provide transparency around campus crime and statistics we have complied a list of different crime categories and their definitions.

Arrests and Referrals for Disciplinary Action

Drug Abuse Violations - The violation of laws prohibiting the production, distribution and/or use of certain controlled substances and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or use. The unlawful cultivation, manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, use, possession, transportation or importation of any controlled drug or narcotic substance.

Liquor Law Violations - The violation of state or local laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession or use of alcoholic beverages, not including driving under the influence and drunkenness.

Weapons Law Violations - The violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, concealment, or use of firearms, cutting instruments, explosives, incendiary devices or other deadly weapons. This classification encompasses weapons offenses that are regulatory in nature.

Criminal Offenses

Aggravated Assault - An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.

Arson - Any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc.

Burglary - The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft. For reporting purposes this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.

Criminal Homicide -

• Murder and Non-Negligent Manslaughter: The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.
• Manslaughter by Negligence: The killing of another person through gross negligence.

Motor Vehicle Theft - The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle, including joyriding or other unauthorized use.

Robbery - The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.

Sexual Assault -

• Fondling: The touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent due to his or her age or because of his or her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.
• Incest: Non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
• Rape: Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim
• Statutory Rape: Non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.

Hate Crimes

Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property - Willfully or maliciously destroy, deface, or otherwise damage public or personal property without the consent of the owner or the person having custody or control of it.

Intimidation - To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.

Larceny-Theft - The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another.

Simple Assault - An unlawful physical attack that do not use the use a weapon and the victim did not sustain severe or aggravated injury.

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Offenses

Dating Violence - Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim.

Domestic Violence - Felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed.

• This can be by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim,
• by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common,
• by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner,
• by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or
• by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction

Stalking - A course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress.