{"id":149,"date":"2009-02-17T10:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-02-17T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:26:17","slug":"typical-crime-map-victimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/2009\/02\/17\/typical-crime-map-victimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Typical Crime Map &#8211; Victimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/02\/crime_map_us_1978_1998.png\" alt=\"Violent Crimes in the USA | Change from 1978-1998\" title=\"Violent Crimes in the USA 1978-1998\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/02\/crime_map_us_1978_1998.png 600w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/files\/2009\/02\/crime_map_us_1978_1998-275x215.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Violent Crimes in the USA | Change from 1978-1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>What Works<\/h3>\n<p>This map uses a two color pie chart scheme to represent increases and decreases in violent crime respectively.  It also breaks the pie into pieces for added granularity of detail &#8211; one for murder, one for forcible rape, one for armed robbery, one for aggravated assault.  (also known as mincemeat pie, right?)<\/p>\n<h3>What Needs Work<\/h3>\n<p>I still think there&#8217;s got to be a better way to represent gains and losses on a spectrum.  Changing from one color pie to another at zero is a little arbitrary.  Three dimensions might help &#8211; states with increases in crime could bulge while states with decreases could sink.  <\/p>\n<p>I included this graph not so much as a particularly good or bad example of building an info graphic but as a contrast to the previous post.  This is a typical depiction of crime mapping.  It depicts violent crime by victimization.  Most crime coverage focuses on this salacious category &#8211; rapes and murders and beatings.<\/p>\n<h3>Relevant Resources<\/h3>\n<p>Ford, Steve. (2006) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/stevejford\/SF-_USA_Crime.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">Map of Violent Crime in the USA 1978-1998<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Works This map uses a two color pie chart scheme to represent increases and decreases in violent crime respectively. It also breaks the pie into pieces for added granularity of detail &#8211; one for murder, one for forcible rape, one for armed robbery, one for aggravated assault. (also known as mincemeat pie, right?) What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1063,270],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-criminology","tag-maps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/graphicsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}