Assignment:
Statistical Analysis Presentation
You can choose to either create a PowerPoint presentation or write a report depicting your analysis of historical crime data for a specific category of crime or criminal issue. Focus your research on one component of the criminal justice system (i.e., law enforcement, courts, or corrections). The data and charts you develop may be used in your Final Project. For this assignment, you will
Present national data and trends based on the FBI - Uniform Crime Report . and/or the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) - National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., or another comparable nationally recognized database, such as The Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Or, for an international perspective, you may present data available at the United Nations Office on
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Present graphical statistical crime data for a specific category of crime from three comparably sized cities, counties, or states from three different regions of the country (e.g., Indianapolis, Austin, and San Francisco). This information should be found on official government websites.
Develop questions you would like to address based on the data you retrieved.
If you choose to create a PowerPoint presentation, your PowerPoint presentation must be a minimum of 10 slides long and must graphically display the statistical data developed for three comparable cities, counties, or states. Your presentation must incorporate national statistics for comparison. Your assessment may be in bullet or paragraph format and must be provided in the notes section of the presentation. Make sure you standardize your data (usually 1:1000; 1:10,000; or 1: 100,000) and incorporate the scale in a key for each chart.
You may wish to include visual enhancements in your presentation. These may include appropriate images, a consistent font, appropriate animations, and transitions from content piece to content piece and slide to slide.