University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 14, 1991
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KU police report women have become most frequent victims of campus crime
Kansan staff writer
For the first time, more women than men have been the victims of reported crimes at KU, according to the 1990 KU police annual report.
Traditionally, men more frequently have been victims, KU police LL. John Mullens said. State property also has been a prime target of reported crimes.
In 1989, there were more reported crimes against women than there were against state property, making women the second most frequent victim in the year, they became the most frequent victims.
Mullens said that although the trend had many factors, it could be attributed in part to the increase in reported telephone harassment.
Compared to 1989, harassment by telephone in 1990 increased by 88 female victims.
according to annual reports.
Reported incidents of telephone harassment usually were obese calls to women,
Other reported crimes against women, such as indecent exposure and lewd and lascivious behavior, decreased by 12 female victims last year. Mullens said.
But offenses such as burglary have shown a significant increase in female victims, Mullens said. In 1990, there were 30 more female victims than in the previous year.
Another reason women have surpassed men as victims of crimes is that women now tend to report crimes more often than men, Mullens said.
Women report crimes more frequently because all-female residence halls and halls with floors for women request more crime prevention programs than men's halls and floors, Mullens said.
These programs encourage students to report every crime, and women now are not as reluctant as men to report a crime, Mullens said.
"They have gotten over the embarrassment that males still have," Mullens said.
Men are less likely to report a crime unless it is a serious crime because the do not want it to happen.
Kristin Lange, member of Women's Student Union, said many women were now reporting crimes they would not normally report.
Lange also said that more women were acknowledging crimes and attending crime prevention programs.
"We are told from day one to fear the nameless stranger who would do untold but horrible things to our body," Lange said. "Men aren't raised with that kind of fear, a realistic fear."
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