Present a PowerPoint slide presentation or a written report (you do not have to do both) depicting your analysis of the historical juvenile crime data for a specific category of crime, or criminal issue. As an alternative to PowerPoint, you can utilize one of the presentation applications listed here, or one approved by your instructor: MoveNote, VoiceThread, Prezi, or Google Present. Choose one component of the criminal justice system (example: law enforcement, courts or corrections) to focus your research. The data and charts you develop might be utilized in your Final Paper. You will:
Present national juvenile data and trends based on FBI - Uniform Crime Reports and the Bureau of Justice Statistics - Crime Type, or other comparable nationally recognized data bases, like the U.S. Department of Education data on campus crime. Make sure you standardize your data - generally 1:1000; 1:10,000; or 1: 100,000 and incorporate the scale in a key for each chart. Present local data from a city, county, or state for three comparable locations in size from three various regions of the country (example: Indianapolis, Austin, and San Francisco). This information must be found on official government websites. Obtain data on at least three demographics like: crime, education levels, gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, education or socio-economic data where available. Develop questions you would like to address based on the data you retrieved?
What juvenile delinquency programs or initiatives are available to the potentially address the crime or criminal justice issue?
PowerPoint Presentation shoild be 10 slides and graphically display the statistical data developed for three comparable cities, counties or states. Your presentation should incorporate national statistics for comparison. Your assessment might be in bullet or paragraph format and will be given in the notes section of the presentation.