Step 1. CHOOSE: 5 Tables or Figures or a Combination
In Week 8 you read Chapter 2 of Brookman, “Patterns and Characteristics of Homicide in the UK.”
This chapter provided a description of:
(1) Homicide Counts, Rates, and Trends; and
(2) Characteristics of Offenders, Victims, and Circumstances.
There are 14 Tables and 8 Figures in Chapter 2.
After reading Chapter 2, you must choose 5 Tables, Figures, or a Combination.
Your choices will enable you to engage in a Comparative Analysis of Homicide Data between the US and the UK.
Because the sizes of the respective countries are so different, you must focus on only those tables and figures that
provide Rates and Percentages as this type of data is not susceptible to population disparities.
• You cannot directly compare Count or Frequency data between the two countries because the population
disparity is so immense between the US and the UK.
• Some Brookman tables are not easy to recreate using the US Homicide data.
• Others can be created quite easily.
• Some Tables do not have any US analogues at all and are shown below as CANNOT USE.
• Some Tables you can choose, but they are bad choices – please see above.
YOUR CHOICE OF THE 5 TABLES FROM BROOKMAN CHAPTER 2 IS CRUCIAL
Step 2. GET THE US DATA TO MATCH YOUR FIVE BROOKMAN TABLES
Below is a list of all the Brookman tables and figures and where you go to create the US data:
BROOKMAN: Where to get US Data: Step 3. CREATE THE US TABLE TO MATCH THE BROOKMAN TABLE
Step 4. Explain why you chose the five (5) tables/figures that you found the most interesting.
20pts.
Step 5. Compare the 5 tables/figures from Brookman to the 5 tables/figures for the US and discuss the
70pts. similarities or differences.
Step 6. * Include in your paper the Brookman Tables and the comparison US Tables and Figures.
10pts. * You can scan the Brookman tables and insert them into the Appendix or retype them.
* You do not need to try to put any Brookman Figures into the paper. Only her Tables.
Basically your goal is to compare and contrast the homicide data for the two countries to demonstrate the
extent to which aspects of homicide in the two countries are alike and where they are different.
