@article{Henderson-Ross_2014, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Measuring Crime: Official Sources of Data}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/measuring-crime-official-sources-of-data}, abstractNote={This exercise is an active-learning exercise that provides students with the opportunity to have an experience with "real" data. I use this exercise in my Special Topics course on "Street Crime," but have also used a variation in Introduction to Criminology. This activity a) introduces students to the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the two major sources of "official crime data" in the Unites States, b) demonstrates how they may gather basic information about specific crimes across a variety of contexts, c) increases their basic data literacy by requiring them to build and read data rich tables, and d) allows them to check their assumptions about crime against official records. Taken together this assignment challenges students to "make" and interpret data as it relates to crime incidents and rates in the United States. }, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Henderson-Ross, Jodi}, year={2014}, month={Oct.} }