Rape Statistics
Rape Statistics
Working at a Historic Black College/University (HBCU) for the past three (3) years, I just recently came in contact with a rape victim. I’ve seen the shows but never thought, I would be a person to come in contact with one. Talking to the different individuals involved with the student case, I decided to do my research paper on rap victim. Specifically, I am looking at how the likelihood of being the victim of a violent crime in the United States is related to gender and race of the victim. The raw data is readily available from the US department of Justice min cooperation with the US Department of Health and Human Services. The Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued their preliminary study in June of 2001. Thomas Simon, Ph.D. and James Mercy, PhD preformed the research, both are scientists at the CDC in association with Craig Perkins, a BJS statistician. In order to make such a study possible, the researchers have to look at a large collection of data, sometimes incomplete that will vary from doctor to doctor. One of the first problems that arise is the underreporting of rape in the United States. It is widely believed in the United States that only one (1) out of three (3) rapes are reported to authorities. The second problem is that different doctors will characterize the injuries differently among no injury, severe injury, and minor injury. For example, a bruise for one doctor may be a minor injury, but for another doctor, no injury. The measurement scale is an interval, severe, some (minor) injury, or no injury. Attached is a copy of the data from the Bureau of Justice statistics. The best statistical tests best suited for this type of data is correlation. Correlation is a bivariate measure of association (strength) of the relationship between two variables. It varies from 0, which indicates not relationship or a random relationship to one, which is a perfect linear
Working at a Historic Black College/University (HBCU) for the past three (3) years, I just recently came in contact with a rape victim. I’ve seen the shows but never thought, I would be a person to come in contact with one. Talking to the different individuals involved with the student case, I decided to do my research paper on rap victim. Specifically, I am looking at how the likelihood of being the victim of a violent crime in the United States is related to gender and race of the victim. The raw data is readily available from the US department of Justice min cooperation with the US Department of Health and Human Services. The Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued their preliminary study in June of 2001. Thomas Simon, Ph.D. and James Mercy, PhD preformed the research, both are scientists at the CDC in association with Craig Perkins, a BJS statistician. In order to make such a study possible, the researchers have to look at a large collection of data, sometimes incomplete that will vary from doctor to doctor. One of the first problems that arise is the underreporting of rape in the United States. It is widely believed in the United States that only one (1) out of three (3) rapes are reported to authorities. The second problem is that different doctors will characterize the injuries differently among no injury, severe injury, and minor injury. For example, a bruise for one doctor may be a minor injury, but for another doctor, no injury. The measurement scale is an interval, severe, some (minor) injury, or no injury. Attached is a copy of the data from the Bureau of Justice statistics. The best statistical tests best suited for this type of data is correlation. Correlation is a bivariate measure of association (strength) of the relationship between two variables. It varies from 0, which indicates not relationship or a random relationship to one, which is a perfect linear