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Crime Victimization in the United States: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

Principal Investigator(s): Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary: Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates crime victimization in the United States. Research questions that can be explored using this learning guide include: what factors affect the likelihood that someone will be victimized, in which demographic groups is victimization the highest, how have victimization rates changed over time, which crimes are more like... (view full summary)

Link: Crime Victimization in the United States

Access Notes

  • Other Data-Driven Learning Guides covering such topics as aging, race, social class, politics, and health are available on ICPSR's Online Learning Center .

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