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The following research and activity ideas are intended to offer suggestions for complementing crime and punishment studies, to trigger additional ideas for enhancing learning, and to provide cross-disciplinary projects for Internet, library, and classroom use.

Crime Statistics: The following annual publications can be found either online or in the reference section of local libraries: the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) yearly report (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm) or the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), an ongoing study by the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an agency in the U.S. Department of Justice (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm). Divide the class into two groups and assign one statistic publication...