Campus Crime At Stevens Institute: FBI Releases Stats For Assaults, Thefts

HOBOKEN, NJ — How many instances of violence and theft did the Stevens Institute campus in Hoboken experience last year? These stats – and other local crime data – are available in the FBI’s recently released 2016 Crime in the United States report.

The annual FBI report is a statistical compilation of offense, arrest and police employee data reported by law enforcement agencies – including those at colleges and universities - that voluntarily participate in its Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

It’s worth noting that rape totals may have changed since 2013 partly due to a new definition of the crime, which now stands as: “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.”

At the Stevens Institute campus, which had a student enrollment of 6,359, the list of incidents for 2016 included:

• Murders – 0
• Rapes – 0
• Robberies – 0
• Aggravated Assaults – 0
• Burglaries – 1
• Larcenies /Thefts – 16
• Motor Vehicle Thefts – 0

Here are the school’s 2015 and 2014 FBI crime statistics for comparison:

• Murders – 0 (2015); 0 (2014)
• Rapes – 0 (2015); 0 (2014)
• Robberies – 0 (2015); 0 (2014)
• Aggravated Assaults – 1 (2015); 0 (2014)
• Burglaries – 2 (2015); 3 (2014)
• Larcenies /Thefts – 32 (2015); 29 (2014)
• Motor Vehicle Thefts - 0 (2015); 0 (2014)

As part of its 2016 report, the FBI released statistics from the following New Jersey colleges and universities: Brookdale Community College, Essex County College, Kean University, Middlesex County College, Monmouth University, Montclair State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Rowan University, Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology, The College of New Jersey and William Paterson University.

The full list of 2016 FBI statistics for each school can be seen here.

Access previous year’s crime statistics dating back to 1995 at the FBI database here.

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