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Among all these campus crimes between 2000-2002, property theft occupied about 75%. Of all the 51 criminals, 30 people committed theft and robbery 8 cases, Their targets ranged from cash, credit card , computer accessories and clothes.
Among all the criminals, there were 16 students from the key universities (representing 31 percent of the total) and 38 of the total were undergraduates, representing 75%.
Beijing: According to a lecture given to our society by Beijing University Students service center, university students who committed crimes occupied about 17 % of juvenile delinquency and seventy percent of them committed theft. This statistic came from an investigation made by Prof. Kang Shuhua who is a professor of Beijing University and the president of National Criminal Research Center. In 1965, juvenile delinquency occupied 33% of total criminal cases, of which the university students only occupied 1%. But during the Cultural Revolution, the number consistently rose. Juvenile delinquency represented 60 percent, of which university students made up 2.5 %. In recent years, the number of crimes involving youths and those in higher education has risen remarkably, with juvenile delinquency occupying 70 to 80 %, of which university students represented 17%. Moreover, a noticeable phenomenon is that among all the crimes that university students committed, 70 percent of cases were theft.
Campus crime report in the United States in 2001
CAMPUS CRIME REPORT (FEDERAL) 2001
Campus On-Campus Residential2 Non-Campus Public Property3 Total
Murder 0 0 0 0 0
Manslaughter 0 0 0 0 0
Sex Offenses1
Forcible 3 3 0 0 3
Non-Forcible 0 0 0 0 0
Robbery 0 0 0 0 0
Aggravated Assault 1 1 0 1 2
Burglary 22 17 1 0 23
Motor Vehicle Theft 0 0 0 3 3
Arson 2 1 0 0 2
Liquor Law Violations 66 58 0 8 76
Drug Related Violations 3 3 0 1 4
Weapons Possession 0 0 0 1 1
DISPOSITION OF SELECTED OFFENSES (FEDERAL) 2001
2001 No. of violations Arrests Internal Disciplinary Action
Liquor Laws 76 34 42
Drug Abuse Violations 4 2 2
Weapons Possession 1 1 0
(From www.eu.gov)
Murder is always regarded as the worst form of crime. This kind of crime never happned before the open door policy in Chinese Unversity campus and in recent years, we can hear the murder from the campus time and again. And an overview on the basis of the lasted murder this year which shocked all ove the world showed that the society , the culture and educational system and the students himself should all take the responsibiltiy.
2. Murders in the University Campus
Case Study
In late February, Ma Jiajue, a senior at Yunnan University, killed four classmates with a hammer and hid the bodies in their cabinets. Ma had been on the run for almost a month before he was arrested in Sanya, south China’s island province of Hainan.
He was born in Binyang County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and was a student of biochemistry at Yunnan University.
On March 1, the Ministry of Public Security issued an urgent appeal for information leading to Ma''s arrest, offering a 200,000yuan (US$24,300) reward.
He told police that he had maintained fairly good relations with the four murdered students, but he decided to gain revenge after he had quarrels with three of them. He killed one a day for four consecutive days.
At the very beginning, this tradgey shocked people all over the world and people began to curse Ma as a bloody murderer .It maybe true to some extent, but what lie behind are many factores related to society, cluture . education and his personality.
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