Assignment #2

Research Study
There are rape victims in Alaska. For every 1,000 people over the age of 12, three of those people are raped. This statistic was conducted in 1973 and has drastically reduced in 2005, which has gone down to about one person. More statistics show that African American and White males are the ones who are mostly committing these crimes. To research more into this I would go to local police departments and research into their records to see how many of what kind of people are committing these crimes and are victims of these crimes. Furthermore, I would attempt to come up with a resolution to help decrease these statistics even further, even though it would be difficult.


Questions for UCR:
1. What is the rate of rape cases?
2. What were the characteristics of the victims and rapists?
3. How accurate are these statistics?
*JW

Questions for NCVS:
1. Do the factors that affect crime change throughout the years?
2. How does the NCVS keep up with the measurements of crime to be accurate?
3. What kind of incidents does the NVCS data contain? Reported or/and unreported?

SELF REPORT DATA
1. How accurate is the content in the self report data?
2. Are self reported data bias?
3.What are pros and cons of information in self rep. data?
*VP