What are the causes/patterns of homicide in your state?

This assignment assesses your understanding of the following Course Outcomes:
CJ102-4: Identify major crime trends and patterns in the United States.
GEL-4.03: Understand patterns of human behavior based upon real world observation.
GEL-1.03: Demonstrate college-level communication through the oral delivery of original materials in Standard English.
PowerPoint Assignment: State Crime Trends
For this assignment, create a narrated Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation about the crime trends in your state. In a minimum of 15 PowerPoint slides (excluding the title and references slides), address the following items:
Your state’s race and gender numbers on homicide in the U.S. for the past 10 years
The rates for those years
Are the rates going up or down? That is, what are the trends?
How does your state’s rate compare with the national rate?
What are the causes/patterns of homicide in your state?
Narration Guidelines:
Maintain a persuasive tone by summarizing observations and evaluations for each slide.
Ensure that your presentation is highly ordered, logical, and unified.
Words should be clearly enunciated and professional tone should be sustained throughout the presentation narration.
Audio recording should be free of background noise and interruptions.
Your 15 slide minimum requirement is excluding your title, introduction, and reference slides.
Use one basic slide design and layout.
Text large enough to be read by your audience (font size 20–34 point).
Use the slide notes section in the presentation to include information that follows your narration, being sure to follow the conventions of Standard English, (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.).
Slide content should include brief points that identify the areas that will be addressed in the narration.
In-text citations should be included with any brief points that were researched from outside sources and the narration should fully explain the points.
Cite all sources on a separate reference slide at the end of the PowerPoint and reference each source in the body of the presentation using APA format.
Limit slides to between 6 and 8 lines of content.

You may use pictures, charts and graphs to supplement your material as long as they do not take up the entire slide.
Identify the source of any pictures you use, being sure to cite them correctly in APA style using in-text citations.
Use bullets for your main points.
Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained.
Presentation should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics.
Appropriate citation style should be followed.
You should also make sure to:
Use examples to support your discussion.
Cite all sources on a separate reference slide at the end of your PowerPoint and reference and cite within the body of the presentation using APA format and citation style. For more information on APA guidelines, visit Academic Tools.
No plagiarism or AI.

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