Imagine you are a researcher who is interested in studying the victim/offender relationship. You decide to use the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) because it collects data on your topic of interest. After searching through the codebook, which provides information on the structure, contents, and layout of a data file, you find that NIBRS breaks down the victim/offender relationshipin the following way:

-Within the family

• Victim was:

1. Spouse
2. Common-law spouse
3. Parent
4. Sibling
5. Child
6. Grandparent
7. Grandchild
8. In-law
9. Stepparent
10. Stepchild
11. Step-sibling
12. Other family member

- Outside the family but known to the victim

• Victim was:

1. Acquaintance
2. Friend
3. Neighbor
4. Babysittee(the baby)
5. Boyfriend/girlfriend
6. Child of boyfriend/girlfriend
7. Homosexual relationship
8. Ex-spouse
9. Employee
10. Employer

- Not known by the victim

1. Relationship is unknown
2. Offender was a stranger

Your task is to state how you would recode these variables into categories that are more manageable. You should state what your new categories are and explain your thought process behind your decisions. You should have no more than six (6) but no less than three (3) categories when you are finished regrouping the data.