This panel discusses how to uncover the real story behind the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. The handbook from the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture, a project of George Soros' Open Society Institute, has numerous resources, contacts and story ideas in an effort to shift crime coverage from spot reporting to a public policy issue. Readers care more than you know.
Crime maps are often among the most popular items given to readers.
This tipsheet provides a tutorial for mapping crime in your area. This handout contains tips on why and how to do murder projects. The handout includes small samples of frequency tables as well as suggestions for questions to ask yourself when examining the data. This tipsheet provides tips for obtaining, importing, examining and analyzing data. This tipsheet also includes samples of raw data and Uniform Crime Reports.