University of Alaska Implementation of the
Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 (CACSA)

Principal investigator(s): Robert H. Langworthy
Other project personnel:

Kathleen Traxinger

Roger C. Miller

Cassie Atwell
Project dates: 1992-2001
JC#: 9207
Agency: University of Alaska Anchorage
University of Alaska Southeast
Project amount: $15,484 (1997-1998 reports)
Project status: Completed

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The Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 (Pub L. 101-542; 104 Stat. 2384-2387; 20 U.S.C. 1092), or CACSA, was written to ensure that students, employees, and visitors to institutions of higher education are aware both of the incidence of crime and of policies and procedures for preventing or reporting occurrences of crime on their campus. CACSA requires postsecondary institutions, as a condition of participating in federal student aid programs, to "prepare, publish, and distribute...to all current students and employees, and to any applicant for enrollment or employment upon request, an annual security report" which contains this information.

The University of Alaska plan for implementation of CACSA was completed by the UA Campus Crime Task Force in September 1991. UA President Jerome B. Komisar directed implementation of the Task Force recommendations, designating the Justice Center as the unit responsible for collecting, collating and publishing the crime statistics required by CACSA. In 1992, the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) elected to separately collect and publish the data from UAF campuses. The Justice Center gathered data annually for the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) and University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) through 2001 under this project; from 2002 to 2005, the Justice Center gathered UAA campus crime statistics only under the Campus Crime project.

Under CACSA and its subsequent amendments, statistics must be compiled on the number of murders, sex offenses, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts reported on each campus of an institution of higher education. The Justice Center also compiled statistics on arson and theft/larceny incidents reported from UAA and UAS sites. Statistics must be also be compiled on hate crimes, in which the victim is intentionally selected because of the actual or perceived race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability of the victim.

In addition, the number of arrests for liquor law violations, drug abuse violations, and weapons possession violations which occurred on campus during the same calendar years must be reported. In 1995, a change in Alaska law resulted in downgrading Minor Consuming Alcohol (MCA) from a misdemeanor to a violation punishable by fine only. Though not required to report violations not resulting in arrest, UAA and UAS chose to report MCA citations voluntarily in an effort to meet the apparent intent of CACSA.

Products

Reports

1991 Crimes and Arrests on University of Alaska Campuses: Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By John E. Angell, Allan R. Barnes, A.B. Dellinger, Melissa S. Green, Roger C. Miller, Antonia Moras, and Kathleen Traxinger. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, October 1992.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1994: University of Alaska Southeast — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Roger C. Miller and Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Southeast. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1995.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1994: University of Alaska Anchorage — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Roger C. Miller and Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Anchorage. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1995.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1995: University of Alaska Southeast — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Southeast. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorae, June 1996.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1995: University of Alaska Anchorage — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Anchorage. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1996.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1996: University of Alaska Southeast — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Southeast. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1997.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1996: University of Alaska Anchorage — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Anchorage. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1997.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1997: University of Alaska Southeast — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Southeast. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1998.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1997: University of Alaska Anchorage — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Anchorage. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1998.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1998: University of Alaska Southeast — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Southeast. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1999.

Reported Crimes and Arrests, 1998: University of Alaska Anchorage — Implementation of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 Crime Reporting Provisions. By Cassie Atwell. Report prepared for the University of Alaska Anchorage. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, June 1999.

Articles

"Crimes and Arrests on the UAA Campus" by Roger C. Miller and Cassie Atwell. Alaska Justice Forum 12(2), Summer 1995.