Identify major crime trends and patterns in the United States.

GEL-4.03: Understand patterns of human behavior based upon real world observation.

GEL-1.03: Demonstrate college-level communication through the oral delivery of original materials in Standard English.

PowerPoint Assignment: State Crime Trends

For this assignment, create a narrated Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation about the crime trends in your state. In a minimum of 15 PowerPoint slides (excluding the title and references slides), address the following items:

1. Your state’s race and gender numbers on homicide in the U.S. for the past 10 years

2. The rates for those years

3. Are the rates going up or down? That is, what are the trends?

4. How does your state’s rate compare with the national rate?

5. What are the causes/patterns of homicide in your state?