Weekly Assignments
Discussion Forums
Please participate in the discussions of the following questions in the Lesson 1 Common Statistics in Criminal Justice online discussion forum:
- What are some common statistics used in the field of criminology/criminal justice? How are they used and what do they mean to you?
- For those of you who have experience working in the CJ field, what types of data are collected by criminal justice agencies in the system? What becomes of this information? How is it used by the agency itself?
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