200 word discussion post

Your response should be complete and address each element listed below in order to receive full participatory credit (20 points). Therefore, I suggest you advance read the textbook and view the PowerPoint which is posted before attempting to post to this discussion forum. Each student will need to post their response as a thread to this forum.

Discussion Topics

Please respond to the following which comes from Chapter 2 of the class textbook. 200 word discussion response.

· Describe how crime statistics are generated and what might be the pros and cons associated with the validity of these sources.

· Why are certain crimes that tend to reflect crime levels used to validate or invalidate the presence of crime?

· Who are the stakeholders who rely upon crime statistics and how are they used by participants in the criminal justice system?

· Do you think crime trends are reported accurately? and how does this information impact lifestyles?