Assignment:
You are working as a research assistant to a senior researcher for the National Institute of Justice who has recently been assigned to a task force project on violence in the United States. Your supervisor asks you to begin preliminary research for the project by creating a PowerPoint presentation with some of the other research assistants. Assume that your fellow group members are the other research assistants and that you have been asked to provide a PowerPoint presentation as a team, describing violence in the United States. Be sure to include the following:
1. Describe the rates of violence (murder, aggravated assault, rape, robbery) in the United States, and compare them to at least 2 other industrialized countries.
2. Discuss some of the difficulties of comparing crime rates across countries.
3. Describe some of the macro-level social and economic factors that differentiate the United States from other countries.
4. Discuss some of the potential reasons for the United States' high violence rate in comparison to other industrialized countries.
5. Discuss which criminological theories may be used to explain the United States' high rate of violence.
Individual Portion:
Write a description on how you would like to present the presentation about crime rates. What should be your points of emphasis pertaining to reasons and specific data on crime rates?
Write an outline on how you would like the PowerPoint to be constructed for this specific topic. Why you want it this way should be explained in a brief manner in the outline.
Write a bulleted list comparing and contrasting the United States' crime rates with other countries around the world.
Discuss your deliverables, and make decisions on what should be included in the PowerPoint presentation.