Visualising Crime Statistics
Jairo Lugo‐Ocando · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2017
This chapter examines the way crime statistics are visually presented in the news media. It starts by looking at the most basic and traditional ways of representing crime statistics graphically, while defining which are the most common and predominant forms of graphic display. It discusses how and why visualisation of statistical data has become such an important feature in the process of communicating statistics to the wider public and how it has affected the way people understand and react to this type of information. In so doing, it also assesses how the rise of data journalism has affected the way crime statistics are presented in graphical terms, while examining the use of key communication elements and resources such as infographs and interactive graphics.