Risk of criminal violence article
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From the South University Online Library, read, summarize, and analyze the following article:
Lemieux, A. M., & Felson, M. (2012). Risk of violent crime victimization during major daily activities. Violence and Victims, 27(5), 635-655.
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 (Below), 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 (below)?
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.
Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Murder/Non-Negligent Manslaughter 294 287 269 198 217
Forcible Rape 750 823 712 771 665
Robbery 10603 11367 9449 8054 9385
Aggravated Assault 13132 13116 12061 11869 11343.
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Solution Summary
A review of an article on risk of being involved in criminal violence based on time, place, and activity.
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The research questions concerned the most safe and most risky activities a person can do in their everyday lives. The activities range from staying home, in bed to commuting to school and work. This is an area with limited focus by research and it was done based in the United States. The figures/data used were those publicly available in the United States and since the funding for the project was in part by the U.S. Department of Justice, the numbers come from their databases. The research focused on place specific and activity specific incidents of risk. Because some activities such as sports are included, the data includes participant and visitor specific rates of violence.
Place, activity, participant and visitor based were not the only considerations. Time balance was also ...
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