UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING (UCR) DEFINITIONS
Criminal Homicide, Murder, and Non Negligent Manslaughter
- The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.
Criminal Homicide, Manslaughter by Negligence
- The killing of another person through gross negligence.
Sexual Offenses, forcible
- Crimes categorized as forcible sex offenses are: forcible rape, forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and forcible fondling. Any sexual act directed against another person, forcibly and/or against that person's will; or not forcibly or against the person's will where the victim is incapable of giving consent.
Sexual Offenses, non-forcible
- Non-forcible sex offenses include: incest and statutory rape. Unlawful, non-forcible sexual intercourse.
Robbery (definition includes attempted robbery)
- The taking, or attempting to take, of anything of value under confrontational circumstances from the control, custody, or care of another person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear of immediate harm.
Aggravated Assault
- An unlawful attack by one person upon another for inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault is usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. (It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used which could and probably would result in serious personal injury if the crime were successfully completed.
Burglary (definition includes attempted burglary)
- The unlawful entry into a building or other structure with the intent to commit a felony or a theft (this may be accomplished via an unlocked door or window). Included are attempts to commit burglary where force is employed, or where a perpetrator is frightened off while entering an unlocked door or climbing through an open window. Note that larceny-thefts (e.g. shoplifting, thefts from motor vehicles, thefts of motor parts, thefts of bicycles, thefts from buildings where the offender has legal access, thefts from coin-operated machines) are a separate category and are not reported as a burglary.
Motor vehicle theft
- The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle.
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.
Liquor law violations
- Violations of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, furnishing, sale, purchase, transportation, possession or use of alcoholic beverages (with the exception of “driving under the influence” or “drunkenness”).
Drug abuse /Controlled Substance violations
- Violations of laws prohibiting the production, distribution, and/or use of controlled substances and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or use. The relevant substances include: opium or cocaine and the derivatives (morphine, heroine, codeine); marijuana, synthetic narcotics (Demerol, methadone); and dangerous non-narcotic drugs (barbiturates, Benzedrine).
Weapons possession
- Violations of laws or ordinances dealing with weapons offenses, regulatory in nature, such as the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, concealment, illegal carry, or use of firearms, cutting instruments, explosives, incendiary devices, or other deadly weapons and all attempts of the aforementioned.
Hate Crimes
- Crimes from all of the above definitions that show evidence that the victim(s) was intentionally selected because of the victim's actual or perceived race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and/or disability.
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DEFINITIONS:
“ON-CAMPUS”
- Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonable contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution's educational purposes, including residence halls; and
- Any building or property that is within or reasonably contiguous to the area identified in paragraph (1) of this definition, that is owned by the institution but controlled by another person, is frequently used by students, and supports institutional purposes (such as a food or other retail vendor).
“NON-CAMPUS PROPERTY”
- Any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the institution; or
- Any building or property owned or controlled by an institution that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the institution's educational purposes, is frequently used by students, and is not within the same reasonable contiguous geographic area of the institution.
- Addresses included in this definition at UW - Stout are for 2004 calendar year:
- 1120 6th Street - Chi Lambda
- 1104 6th Street - Phi Sigma Phi
- 202 17th Avenue W. - Sigma Tau Gamma
- 1208 8th Street - Phi Omega Beta
- 321 Wilson Ave. - Kappa Lambda Beta
- 804 9th Ave E. - Sigma Sigma Sigma
- 902 7th Street - Alpha Phi
- 901 8th Street - Delta Zeta
- 108 3rd Ave W. - Campus Ministry
- 621 Wilson Ave. - Street Level Ministries
PUBLIC PROPERTY
All public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, and parking facilities, that is within the campus, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.