Criminal Justice 113 Criminology Crime Poll

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• Criminal Justice 113 Criminology Crime Poll
• Do You Feel Safe on Campus 2007
• 294 students were polled comprising approximately
  29 of the Fulton Cayuga Community College
  population
• Of those responding
• approximately 49 were male
• 51 were female
• The lowest reported age was 16 with the oldest of
  62
• 60.5 were between the ages of 18 23 making the
  majority of this sample population
• There were 20 questions asked by the poll takers
  with an option to respond to a 21st with
  suggestions for improvement.

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• Question 1 Have you ever been the victim of a
  crime?
• 294 responses Yes 46.5 No 53.4
• Question 2 Has any family member been the victim
  of a crime?
• 261 responses Yes 59.7 No 40.2
• Question 3 Do you own a firearm?
• 282 responses Yes 30.8 No 69.1
• Question 4 Where do you keep it normally?
• 269 responses Home 24.9 Vehicle 4.8 Other
  2.9 N/A 67.2

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• Question 5 Do you own or carry personal defense
  spray?
• 286 responses Yes 11.5 No 88.4
• Question 6 Do you carry a knife or dangerous
  instrument regularly?
• 280 responses Yes 29.2 No 70.7
• Question 7 If you are a CCC student, do you
  bring any of the items asked in 3, 5 or 6 with
  you to school?
• 280 responses Yes 14.6 No 43.2
  N/A 42.1
• Question 8 Do you feel safe in the community you
  live in?
• 244 responses Yes 86.3 No 16.8

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• Question 9 Do you feel safe in the neighborhood
  you live in?
• 279 responses Yes 86.3 No 13.6
• Question 10 Do you leave your house/apartment
  unlocked at night?
• 277 responses Yes 22.2 No
  76.88
• Question 11 If you own a vehicle, do you leave
  the keys in the vehicle at night?
• 284 responses Yes 14.4 No 73.59
  N/A 10.5
• Question 12 Do you walk alone in you neighborhood
  at night?
• 231 responses Yes 61 No 43.7
• Question 13 Do you view law enforcement police
  as an entity that tends to hassle and infringe
  on your rights?
• 242 responses Yes 29.7 No 69.0

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• Question 14 Do you feel the potential for
  violence and crimes against persons is as
  great at the college as it is at home or your
  workplace?
• 258 responses Yes 46.8 No 41.8 N/A
  11.24
• Question 15 Do you feel safe on the Fulton CCC
  Campus?
• 256 responses Yes 83.9 No 16.01
• Question 16 Do you feel there is enough police
  protection offered to the campus? Poll taker
  must identify as to term police
• 250 responses Yes 57.2 No 37.6
• Question 17 Do you feel there is adequate Campus
  Security protection?
• 265 responses Yes 69.4 No 30.5

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• Question 18 Do you feel that the Campus Security
  Officers should carry firearms?
• 251 responses Yes 50.5 No 49.4
• Question 19 Did you participate in the CCC poll
  offered last Fall and if so, did you
  respond differently to the security questions at
  that time?
• 239 responses Yes 3.3 No 56.9
  N/A 39.7
• Question 20 Do you feel that the Fulton Campus
  should increase security measures offered to
  the students, faculty and employees?
• 272 responses Yes 33.0 No 66.9

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• Security Recommendations Offered by the
  Respondents
• Approximately 16.6 of the respondents to the
  poll offered general recommendations to increase
  security measures for the Fulton Campus of Cayuga
  Community College. We will provide you with the
  top four recommendations of this target
  population
• An increase in Fulton police protection within
  the parking lot.
• Visible security protection in the parking lot at
  night.
• Cameras installed outside the building observing
  the parking lot.
• Increased coverage in the parking lot both days
  and nights. This would require an increase in
  security staff to accomplish this.
• A responsibility of security at night would
  also include escorts to vehicles for both
  students and faculty requesting this.
• 1 is an issue to be resolved between CCC and the
  Fulton Police Department and in honesty, is not
  something that can be resolved 100.
• s 2, 3 and 4 are budgetary and staffing issues
  that would have to be resolved internally within
  CCC. Auburn has 15 security assigned to that
  campus for 1,549 students, while Fulton has four
  for 1,055 students. 2006 figures supplied by
  CCC

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• Crimes of Violence
• National Crime Victimization Survey person 12
  and older experience 24 million crimes each year
• Of that 5.7 million consist of violent crimes
• For every 1,000 people aged 12 and over there
  occur annually
• - 1 rape or sexual assault
• - 2 assaults with injury
• - 3 robberies
• Reported six murders per 100,000 people
• About ½ of all violent crimes are reported to
  police
• Is this number alarming and why?
• What is wrong with these stats?
• Recall the UCR definitions of all the crimes
  involved.

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• Crimes in the workplace
• Could this also include crimes in the school?
• An average of 1.7 million violent victimizations
  to be made a victim were committed against
  people who were at work or on duty
• Accounts for 18 of all violent crime nationwide
• 17 of all deaths in the workplace are homicides!
• - second only to being hit by a vehicle while
  at work
• 95 of these were for aggravated or simple
  assault
• Remaining would be murder, rape and other violent
  sex crimes
• YET YOU STATED ON YOUR POLL THAT YOU FEEL SAFE ON
  THE FULTON CAMPUS OF CAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
• Is this because there is something done
  differently here?
• Is this because such a crime has never happened
  to you before at the workplace or the school?
• Is this because you never considered crimes such
  as this occurring at
• - the workplace?
• - the school?
• - this college

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• Some reasons for violence in the workplace /
  school
• Individual Characteristics
• Includes feelings of helplessness and isolation,
  life stressors such as illness or divorce,
  paranoid personality or thinking patterns, and
  substance abuse.
• Precipitating Events
• Includes incidents of harassment by fellow
  workers / students or supervisors instructors /
  staff, job change, job termination
• Question could we substitute changes in the
  classroom and failing grades or expulsion from
  a class?
• System Characteristics
• This refers to the way the organization
  traditionally responds to such precipitating
  events as change, stress and crisis. At-risk
  organizations ignore early warning signals, are
  purely reactive in crisis situations that
  underlie conflict and violence

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• Some data to back up the proceeding
• People at work experience violent crimes at the
  rate of 13 / 1,000
• Simple assault rate of 9 / 1,000 is four times
  that of any other crime
• You are more likely to be the victim of a violent
  crime than a simple one!
• 2/3 of all aggravated assaults are committed
  against males
• Highest among whites
• - some 86 of all aggravated assaults
• - 89 of all simple assaults
• How could we interpret these crime stats?
• Is this campus proactive or reactive?
• 13 students or faculty/staff could be the victim
  of a violent crime
• At least 9 could be the victim of an additional
  simple assault
• 23 people on this campus could experience a
  violent crime or one with injury to take place
  against them
• And as this is based on NCVS stats, with only ½
  of all violent crime and 58 of aggravated or
  simple assaults reported to police that number
  of 23 is doubled to 46? Maybe to 53?
• Would you state that 53 people on this campus as
  the true possible number as being a victim is too
  high? Is it a safe stat you can accept?

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• Criminal Justice Crime Poll Part II
• To follow up the original poll, we asked 300
  students, faculty and staff the following
  questions following the incident at Virginia
  Tech. We were careful to instruct to the
  students to answer the questions in a rational
  versus emotional manner. The stats from the
  original poll are listed in red beneath each of
  the results.
• Do you feel the potential for violence and crimes
  against persons is as great at the college as it
  is at home or your workplace?
• 174 Yes 100 No 26 N/A
• 58 33.3 8.6
• 46.8 41.8 11.24
• Do you feel safe on the Fulton CCC Campus?
• 253 Yes 47 No
• 84.3 15.6
• 83.9 16.01

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• Do you feel there is adequate police protection
  offered to the campus?
• 137 Yes 163 No
• 45.6 54.3
• 57.2 37.6
• 4. Do you feel there is adequate Campus Security
  protection?
• 164 Yes 134 No 2 Unsure
• 54.6
  44.6 0.6
• 69.4 30.5
• 5. Do you feel that the Campus Security Officers
  should carry firearms?
• 217 Yes 83 No
• 72.3 27.6
• 50.5
  49.4

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• 6. Do you feel that the Fulton Campus should
  increase security measures offered to the
  students, faculty and employees?
• 195 Yes 105 No
• 65 35
• 33.0 66.9
• 7. Did you participate in the first poll taken
  by Criminal Justice 113?
• 64 Yes 234 No 2 No Answer
• 21.4 78.5
• If so have you changed your answers from
  the first response?
• 17 Yes 47 No
• 27.8 71.2
• Of the 64 who responded in the affirmative
• The preceding was a sampling of 300 students,
  faculty and staff taken on April 17 19th. All
  questionnaires can be viewed at Prof. Lampheres
  office on the Fulton Campus. The poll was taken
  with the assistance of the Criminal Justice
  Society Fulton.