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Blog Post #10

Seminole County: Race, Crime, and Punishment in Florida             Abstract: There is very little to no scholarship on crime and punishment as it pertains to race in the state of Florida. In Seminole county, men were being arrested and incarcerated in far greater numbers than women, however, non-white men were being arrested and incarcerated in even greater numbers than white men – 570 non-white men and 64 non-white women. In terms of white individuals arrested and incarcerated, 309 were white males and 18 were white females. This data based on sex of these individuals shows in part that they were largely multi-racial men that were being arrested. In Seminole county, non-white people were largely arrested for alcohol related crimes, assault, and finally, larceny. Depending on the year many of these crimes were committed, for example, when looking at alcohol related crimes, they were likely the highest during the Prohibition ye...
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Blog Post #9

         For this week’s blog we were asked to do an environmental scan based on the research that we will be doing for the final project for this class. Two of the three of these are digital projects and the other uses graphs and other digital tools to support its research.   The research I will be doing for my final project will look at crime, punishment, and race in Seminole County, Florida, assisting my professor with his own research. This topic of research is also similar to my own research topic for my master’s thesis that is on crime, punishment, and race in Sanford, Florida, located in Seminole County.   The first of these digital projects is “Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia.”             It contains a word cloud, with links that will take you to an individual who was lynched and where this occurred.   You can also search the victims by decades and on a map of the state of Virg...
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Blog Post #8

           This week we were directed to talk more about Dr. Ferster ’s book Interactive Visualization: Insight Through Inquiry specifically looking at the “ ASSERT Model ” as well as, further discuss out final projects for this class. Since I did not talk about the “ ASSERT Model ” in last weeks post I also believe it would be important to do so. The “ ASSERT Model ” according to Ferster was created to support creative visual projects to build on research (Ferster, 38-40). The first portion of the “ ASSERT Model ” which is shown in figure 1.29 on page 39 in the book is “ Ask a Question ” (Ferster, 39). Last week I mentioned what my research topic and historical questions are, so you may refer back to that blog post if you would like for reference which will tie into the first portion of the “ ASSERT Model ”. Like I mentioned previously, I am working in conjunction with and being advised by my professor, who is also the researcher. He has aided me in ident...
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