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Friday, October 3, 2025

Three rapes reported on Southern Illinois University-Carbondale campus in 2017

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There were 3 on-campus rapes in 2017 on the campus of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, located in Carbondale, according to the most recent crime statistics available on the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website.

In 2016, there were 4 rapes on the campus; and in 2015, there were 13 rapes. Overall, in the three year period from 2015 through 2017, 95 percent of on-campus rapes happened in residence halls. The following table shows how many of these on-campus criminal offenses were committed in residence halls:


YearOn-campus rapesIn residence halls% In residence halls
201733100%
201644100%
2015131292%

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