CCJS 300 Topic 9: Analyzing Content and Police Data: Social Network Analysis, Crime Mapping, Big Data, and Content Analysis

Read First

Let's talk about some other ways we can collect data! This week you will learn about secondary data analysis, content analysis, big data, and crime mapping.

This week, you will also continue moving ahead with our data analysis. You will learn about correlations. This will be the last new lesson in R.

We will cover the following subtopics this week:

Objectives

Explain how secondary data analysis is different from the methods we have already examined in this book.
Understand how social network analysis can be used for intelligence-led policing as well as basic research.
Understand how computer technology, such as crime mapping, has ushered in our ability to analyze Big Data and the effects this has had on criminal justice-related researcher.
Describe the steps necessary when performing a content analysis.

Tasks to Complete this week (in this order)

1. Respond to the Slack warm up question!

2. Readings:

Bachman et al. Chapter 9

Gillespie Chapter 10 (optional if you have the book)

3. Topic 9 Lecture Slides and Commentary

4. Correlations Participation Assignment

Reminder

The book offers a helpful study site--take advantage of what it has to offer: https://study.sagepub.com/bachmanfrccjsr (Links to an external site.)

Looking Ahead

Quiz 3 is coming up!

Have a great week!

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