Overview
PART 1
PLEASE WRITE YOUR OWN GRAPH FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT BECAUSE I COULD NOT CUT AND PASTE INTO THIS ASSIGNMENT
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/home
Discussion Board Module 2 - Reading (FBI Crime Data Explorer)
Students, start this Discussion Board assignment by posting a thread. You must demonstrate you read and learned from the assigned readings through the use of an FBI crime data website. Remember the NIBRS data set is an improvement to the UCR, as it oMers richer data on oMenses, oMenders, and victims. First, access and explore the website: Crime Data Explorer. Second, review the information that is oMered on the website for national, state, county, city, and university level information notice crime type. There are four demographic categories: age, sex, race, ethnicity, and weapon type. Review this information by selecting certain features: location, crime type, oMender and victim information. Practice your table and graph reading skills. Pay attention to the title of the item, the years presented, the information on the x/y axis and the rows in graphs. Also, pay attention to the footnotes.
Crime Data ExplorerLinks to an external site.
Click on NATIONAL DATA Explore
OR
CDELinks to an external site.
The questions for you to address in this post are:
1. Why is it important to be able to use crime data from the FBI to answer questions about crime? Explore the Crime
Data site by toggling through the filters. Identify two important graphs about crime/victimization/ oMenders that all class members should know. Take a screen shot of these two pages you have created by using the filters. Put the screenshots in your Discussion Board post.
2. For each graph, use several sentences describe what is important about the screenshots you include in your post to discuss in our class.