Crime picture in America

For your last project this semester, you will create a poster that will give people a look at the “crime picture” in the United States and you will show the image of crime in an American city. While the FBI and other agencies produce significant amounts of data and statistics that are profoundly telling of crime in America, I have yet to see a graphical presentation that combines raw data with images. Let your creative juices flow as you create your poster.

The Task & Objectives

You and your partner will create a poster. The goal of the poster is to provide a picture of criminal activity in the United States. You will use data from the FBI as well as other official resources. 

To accomplish your task, you will research crime statistics on the web. There are two major sources of crime statistics in the United States; the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The most widely quoted source is the UCR. For this project, most of your data should come from the UCR. 

Data in the UCR is divided into the following two categories:

Part I Offenses (Major crimes)

Part II Offenses (Generally less serious and/or less frequent crimes)

By the end of this project, you will be able to:

Use visual aids explain the current picture of crime in the United States;
Discuss the key elements of the Uniform Crime Report;
Obtain data from the UCR and provide your own analysis; 
Identify the eight Part I crimes in the UCR;
Interpret data from the FBI Crime Clock and the UCR;
Poster Topics

Violent Crimes/Property Crimes/"Less Serious/Frequent" Crimes

Examples

Criminal Homicide, Burglary, Simple assault, forgery, fraud, vandalism, drug abuse violations, prostitution, gambling, disorderly conduct, and weapons offenses

Introduction: The UCR is divided into Part I and Part II crimes. Furthermore, Part I crimes are divided into two categories: violent crimes and property crimes. 

Poster

Required Poster Elements: As you create your Poster, think about the goal: providing a picture of criminal activity in the United States.

Your poster should include a combination of images and data. Be creative!! Since the topics vary, I expect a wide range of organization and information with the poster. Below is a brief list of required elements that should be included in your poster:

1. Definitions > Define the topic of your poster. For example, if you are presenting a poster about arson, make sure you include a specific definition of arson. Also, make sure you include definitions of other terms that the general public may not know. 

2. 2014 Data Use the UCR (or other sources, if applicable) to obtain actual data. Think about including the most relevant statistics. For example, you could include the number of offenses, the percent change from 2013 to 2014, or the months with the most activity. Search the UCR for facts that you could include in your poster and presentation.

3. Trends: This is where you should interpret the data. Look at a historical perspective. You may want to create a graph or chart to show your findings.

4. Portray crime in the United States: Include maps, if necessary that will give the audience a "picture" of your crime in the U.S. 

5. Crime Clock: Create a crime clock. Look at some of the samples provided to get ideas. The crime clock is a major component of the poster. Your crime clock should show the frequency of crime in the U.S. and help us understand any changes in the crime rate over the years. 

6. Other elements that COULD be included: include the URL for a city’s police department and other city agencies that could be helpful for understanding crime in the city. Show population data for the city. On your poster include the source for the data. You can pick any major city in the United States to give us a clearer picture of crime in cities.

Class Presentation

You will present your poster to the class. Below are notes about your presentation:

1) Please do not read the poster to the class. We can read. As important as the information is from the poster, your interpretation, analysis and explanation are much more important. Think about what is ON the poster and make some comments. We want to know what you think. 

2) Your presentation grade will be based on your familiarity with your information and how well your "relate" to your audience. Eye contact and clear speaking are two great ways to "connect" with your audience. In a nutshell, keep us interested and you have an A+. Make us wish we were watching paint on the ceiling dry and you’re grade will be lower. You may use notes. However, if you keep looking at your poster, you will have points deducted.

3) Each person should present for 3-5 minutes. After your brief presentation, we will have questions and students will take notes. 

4) Your team should split the presentation equally

perfect this is criminal law and also please add images of graphs if you can find any useful ones also i will be presenting so please make it easy for me to print things out an put them on a poster another thing is my teacher said that i should not read off of the poster it self is there a possibility you can also make a reference of bullet points covering each topic about 3-5 bullets for each

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According to the FBI’s Uniform Criminal Reporting Program there are different numbers of crimes that are committed all around America. This Program documents the statistics of arrests of different kind of committed crimes…