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Assignment:

Scenario

A team conducting a strategic analysis of changes in recent crime in your state has asked you to give a presentation to an affected community. They have asked for your help using evidence-based theories to interpret the criminal behavior and reveal potential patterns that can be used to inform crime-prevention efforts.

Preparation

Select data or an event that occurred in Georgia within the past 12-24 months involving charges for a particular type of crime. You can use the Interactive Data Analyzer from the U.S. Sentencing Commission to view data on crimes by federal offenders or view the FBI's What We Investigate press release search tool on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) website to locate violent crime events in the news. Align your chosen crime to a school of thought or criminology theory presented so far in this course that explains the criminal behavior.

Assessment Deliverable

Using real-life information from Georgia about a crime of your choice, create a 10- to 12-slide presentation for the affected community, as if you were a crime analyst explaining fundamental theories on the causes of the recent criminal behavior.

Include the following in your analysis of the criminal behavior using an evidence-based theory:

• Explain at least 2 of the school of thought or criminology theory's key principles. Include any assumptions underlying the development of the theory or give relevant examples that show how to interpret the theory.
• Defend why your selected school of thought or criminology theory is the best explanation for the selected criminal behavior exhibited in the data or event.

Formatting Requirements

Download and review the Presentation Template Example. This example has been customized to reflect your summative assessment presentation components and will help you get a better idea of how to organize your presentation so that you can focus on the slide content

Whether you use the presentation template example or another template of your choice, include the following slides and topics in your presentation:

• Title
• Introduction
• Example of recent data or event
• School of thought or recent criminology theory for this case
• School of thought or theory key principles
• Theoretical explanation of criminal behavior
• Conclusion
• References
• Presentation recording link (if recording using video software)