This course is part of a program that leads to a college degree. The work you have completed and the knowledge you have gained will set you apart in the marketplace.As the week winds down, also spend some time in that final discussion telling what needs to be changed to make this a more robust course. Explain what would make this more meaningful to your line of work? What would have made it more meaningful to that new career you hope to transition to one day? What worked in this course? If you had to teach this course, what would you do differently to prepare yourself, to prepare the students? What tools or skills did you hope to obtain from this course that you did not obtain? And also, what tools and skills did you learn that hit the spot. And, when you tell people about this course, what will you say to someone who wants to take it?Please refer to this week's reading and objectives.

Introduction:For this assignment, you will use the data in Exhibit 2.5 of Chapter 2 in the Mismeasure of Crime text as a basis for your submission. Exhibit 2.5 provides you with the homicide rate data for a sample of large U.S. cities for the years 1880–1915. Choose any three cities represented to perform a comparative analysis of the historical data.Instructions:Based on your reading of the Hernon and Schwartz article What Is a Problem Statement?, draft a narrowly focused problem statement that can be examined using appropriate criminal justice research methods for the data presented.Compare the 1880 and 1915 homicide rates in Exhibit 2.5 of Chapter 2 in your Mismeasure of Crime text to the most recent UCR homicide rates for the cities chosen. Retrieve the rates from the FBI's UCR site. Analyze whether the current rates are higher or lower.Explain factors that might account for the differences.Special Instructions:Create a 2 page essay in APA format according to the instructions above. Use 3 scholarly sources; whereas, 1 will be provided for you. Utilize in-text citations.Source give to you: Mosher, Clayton, Miethe, D., T., Hart, C., T. The Mismeasure of Crime. FBI's UCR Site: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s