Criminal Justice

CONTEXTUAL THINKING ABOUT DIFFERENT SCENARIOS This exercise involves you using imagination and logical reasoning to occupy the mindset of a visualizer facing the task of formulating a brief for different scenarios. Imagine you are given the challenge of creating a visualization/infographic in each of the following made-up scenarios: THE SUBJECT: Texas Department of Criminal Justice Scenario A: A pro-capital punishment (local/national) newspaper reporting on the milestone of the 500th execution (pretend it is 2013, there have now been more than 500)

Scenario B: Analyst staff at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice reporting to senior management about aspects of their operations Scenario C: A campaign group looking to influence the debate about the ending of capital punishment Website reference: Executed Offenders datasetAssignment Link: http://book.visualisingdata.com/chapter/chapter-3Assignment Length (word count): At least 500 words (not including direct quotes).References: At least three peer-reviewed, scholarly journal references. For more information read this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice