week1

Instructions

Week 1 Project: Risk of Violent Crime Victimization

Assignment Resources:

Access the Project Resources graphic to below for the article used in this assignment.

From the South University Online Library, read, summarize, and analyze the following article:

Risk of Violent Crime Victimization During Major Daily Activities

Tasks:

On the basis of your analysis, respond to the following:

  • Describe the authors’ research questions, methodology, results, and findings.
  • Describe how the methodology helped the authors answer the research questions.
  • Describe how this article could or should influence public policy.
  • If you were to replicate the research of Lemieux and Felson using the data from Week 2 Project, would you have all the data you need to replicate their research? Are the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) statistics sufficient for reproducing their research?
  • What might be missing and preventing you from completing their research using the data from W2 Assignment 2?
    • How would you go about getting the needed information to complete their research?
    • Identify and describe other measures of crime in the United States that would be more appropriate to replicate their research and include a description of those data sources.
    • Be specific as to how the sources you identified are more appropriate measures than the UCR.

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