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Exercise # 3 Annotated Graphs
LaShauna Crayton
Sowk 300 Computer Application
Tuskegee University
January 27, 2011
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Annotated Graph 2
Abstract
I have use bar, line, and pie graph to discuss the research of my data table about the
adults on probation, parole, or in prison or jail. I described the following in different graphs: the
magnitude, the scope, the changes, and the disparities. The information from the data tables
comes from different states and it also between the years of 1980-2008. There have been some
graphs that I picked a certain year and there are others that I use every 10 years.
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Annotated Graph 3
Magnitude of the Problem
Descriptive Paragraph
This graph is self explanatory. What are picture on this page is a bar graph of adults on
probation, parole, prison, or jail. There are 4,270,917, adults on probation, where as, 828,169 on
parole. The results on this graph don’t get any better, there are 1,518,559 adults in prison and
785,556 are in jail. Those are some very large numbers.
Interpretive Paragraph
Adults that are on probation have the highest total for the year of 2008 while the jail total
is low. I feel that the jail total and prison total are lower than the probation total because of at one
point or time some of the adults that falls under the probation category have once been I jail. I
stated early, those are some large numbers, no matter what the circumstance, the numbers should
have been lower in each category. The graph includes adults that committed crimes such as:
murder, robbery, and domestic violence.
4,270,917
828,169
785,556
1,518,559
Adults on Probation, in Jail or
Prison, or on Parole 2008
Probation
Parole
Jail
Prison
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Scope of the Problem
Descriptive Paragraph
Shown in the graph above is the total amount of prisoners in the following states:
Alabama (30,508), California (173,670), Georgia (52,719), and New York (60,347) in the year of
2008. California has the highest amount of prisoners than the other states and Alabama with the
least than the all of the other states.
Interpretive Paragraph
The amount of prisoners in 2008 include juvenile that are convicted as an adult. The
reason why some of the states prison total is higher than other is only because their population
rates are higher. Like for instance, California has a very large population rate than Alabama, so
of course there’s a greater chance that there incarceration rates (jail or prison) will be higher. I
also thought that New York amount would be more than it appears to be.
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20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
140,000
160,000
180,000
Alabama California Georgia New York
Prisoners by State
2008
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Annotated Graph 5
Changes in the Problem
Descriptive Paragraph
The line graph shows how the total number of the adults on probation, prison, jail, and
parole. I only reported every 10 years starting with the year of 1980 and ending with 2008.
Between those years, the adults on probation range from 1,100,000-4,270,900; parole from
220,400-820,160; prison range from 300,600-1,500,500; and jail from 180,200-820,160.
Interpretive Paragraph
What I observe about this graph is that probation rates where the highest and continue to
rise through the years also. The jail and prison rate stayed low throughout the years; seems like
more people were on ending up on probation, which not setting any examples and that could be
another factor why the rates are continuing to rise. Maybe if the superior would buckle down on
the laws and the rates will drop.
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
4,000,000
4,500,000
1980 1990 2000 2008
Prison
Jail
Probation
Parole
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Disparities in the Problem
Descriptive Paragraph
There were 6,006,800 males incarcerated in 2008 while there were only 1,301,400
females; what a big difference.
Interpretive Paragraph
I have read news articles and also watch TV and realize that most females are convicted
because of being accomplice for a male; remember what I said most cases. Then you have the
other type of females that just snapped. A male doesn’t really think when they are upset and I
also think that they have a better chance getting in the system faster than a female. My opinion, I
feel that male’s incarceration rate will continue to stay higher than years to come, based on their
cocky attitude and how the generation is changing year by year and also getting dangerous.
6,006,800
1,301,400Prisoners by Sex in 2008
Male
Female
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Summary and Conclusion
What were measured here in this data table are the adults on probation, parole, or in jail
and prison. Juveniles are also included in the numbers of the different categories. What I learned
in this exercise how the rates of the categories listed above are high and continue in the past
years. Even in the different states all their numbers where high and to also include that it was
only for one year, 2008.
It really did amaze me how the smaller states number where close to the states with a
larger population. One thing I notice in the change, is that the numbers where increasing as the
years. Individuals that have a loved one in the system that has an influence on their child life and
I feel that, that is one reason why the rates are going up each year; people are following there
family footsteps.