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· ** State your societal category here: Crime ** · ** Indicate the search term you used and how many results your search generated here: Crime Rates, 5437170 results ** · ** Without visiting any of the individual Web pages on your print-out, circle all the Web page titles on that list, not including the sponsored links, that you think may be useful and indicate how many useful items you have circled here: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm **

· ** Identify the best source for information about the societal category you picked, go online and visit that page, and write up to 3 sentences describing specific reasons why you think this is a good source for your societal category: ** [] · ** The data is comprised of information from 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the nation. In addition, there is a strict guideline to follow when reporting a crime. For example, every crime has specifics stating what judgment or what level of crime it is to be rated. Lastly, because the data is covered by the entire nation and all reports are generally viewed in the same level, the data is very precise and worthy. ** · ** Identify one Web page you believe is probably not a good source for your societal category. Visit that page and write up to 3 sentences describing why this is not a good source for your societal category: ** [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_rate] · ** The data found within Wikipedia is not entirely accurate. One example of this is because the data in Wikipedia can be changed or edited by an outside source and although the possibility of having a good outside source is possible, the likeliness of a non-credible source is more likely. The website is not in compliance with any credible sources such as government agencies: FBI. Lastly the data found on Wikipedia about crime rate only represents the general term of “crime rate.” It doesn’t in fact show any statistics or rates of crime per year. It only shows how crime rates are recorded with some rules and regulation. Generally speaking, Wikipedia is barely a source or crime rates. ** 