2019 Dominican College of Blauvelt Crime & Safety Report

Is Dominican College of Blauvelt safe? Below we'll take a look at crime statistics for the college campus and surrounding areas.

Our crime and safety report on Dominican College includes:

• Understanding the Stats
• Dominican College Crime Overall
• On-Campus Crime
• Residence Hall Crime
• Crime in the Orangeburg Neighborhood
• References

A Word About the Crime Stats for Dominican College

Crime & Safety Definitions

Our crime statistics come from the U.S. Department of Education's Campus Safety and Security data. The four types of crimes we will be analyzing are violence against women, arrests for major crimes, arrests for possession, and disciplinary actions.

Murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and arson are the types of things included in the arrests for major crimes category. The violence against women grouping includes things such as domestic violence, date rape, and stalking. The arrests for possession classification deals with things such as weapons possession, alcohol violations, and drug violations. The disciplinary actions category involves possession of weapons, alcohol violations, and drug violations in the cases where no arrest occurred but some action was taken.

Number of Incidents

It is not uncommon for a school to report zero incidents for any or all of these categories. In fact, 56% of the schools we cover reported no arrests for major crimes, 67% reported no violence against women, 70% reported no arrests for possession, and 68% reported no disciplinary actions.

Although zero incidents of reported crime is nice, it doesn't necessarily mean that the school is safer. It could indicate lax reporting. Likewise, a high number of incidents may just mean that the school is stricter about law enforcement and reporting.

Dominican College Overall Crime Stats

Dominican College of Blauvelt reported 71 safety-related incidents involving students on or near campus or at other properties affiliated with the school in 2019. That works out to 38.01 incidents per 1,000 students, considering that the student body population is 1,868.

The table below gives the number of incidents by category, and for comparision, also states the max number of incidents reported by any school in our analysis.

Category	Number of Incidents	Max Number of Incidents (at any school)	Number of Incidents per 1,000 students	Max Number of Incidents per 1000 students (at any school)
Arrests for Major Crimes	2	1,670	1.07	4,000.00
Arrests for Possession	0	880	0.00	1,352.94
Violence Against Women	7	334	3.75	1,000.00
Disciplinary Actions	62	2,670	33.19	4,574.85

Dominican College Overall Crime by Category

The chart below shows what percentage of Dominican College crime and safety incidents are in each category.

Disciplinary actions account for 87.3% of all crime and safety incidents at the school. About 2.8% of incidents were arrests for major crimes. Acts of violence against women accounted for 9.9% of incidents.

Comparison to Other Schools in the Nation

The charts below show how Dominican College compares to other colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to each category of crime and safety-related incidents. Note that this does not take school size into account so larger schools are likely to have more incidents.

We can factor in the size of the school and look at the incidents per thousand students as well.

Dominican College Overall Crime by Location

The chart below shows what percentage of Dominican College crime and safety incidents happened in each location.

Dominican College On-Campus Crime Stats

Dominican College of Blauvelt reported 71 safety-related incidents involving students on campus in 2019. That works out to 38.01 incidents per 1,000 students, considering that the student body population is 1,868.

The table below gives the number of incidents by category, and for comparision, also states the max number of incidents reported by any school in our analysis.

Category	Number of Incidents	Max Number of Incidents (at any school)	Number of Incidents per 1,000 students	Max Number of Incidents per 1000 students (at any school)
Arrests for Major Crimes	2	1,585	1.07	4,000.00
Arrests for Possession	0	813	0.00	888.89
Violence Against Women	7	331	3.75	1,000.00
Disciplinary Actions	62	2,645	33.19	4,544.91

Dominican College On-Campus Crime by Category

The percentage breakdown of Dominican College on-campus crime and safety incidents by category is shown in the following chart.

Dominican College Residence Hall Crime Stats

In 2019, Dominican College of Blauvelt reported 66 incidents related to crime and safety that involved students in residence halls. Note that these numbers are also included in the on-campus crimes category. That works out to 35.33 incidents per 1,000 students, considering that the student body population is 1,868.

The table below gives the number of incidents by category, and for comparision, also states the max number of incidents reported by any school in our analysis.

Category	Number of Incidents	Max Number of Incidents (at any school)	Number of Incidents per 1,000 students	Max Number of Incidents per 1000 students (at any school)
Arrests for Major Crimes	2	167	1.07	101.80
Arrests for Possession	0	715	0.00	180.35
Violence Against Women	4	140	2.14	53.89
Disciplinary Actions	60	2,507	32.12	4,029.94

Dominican College Residence Hall Crime by Category

The chart below shows what percentage of Dominican College crime and safety incidents in residence halls are in each category.

References

• National Center for Education Statistics
• U.S. Department of Education Campus Safety and Security
• College Scorecard
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

More about our data sources and methodologies.