Measuring Crime and Criminality focuses on how different approaches
to measuring crime and criminality are used to test existing
criminological theories. Each chapter reviews a key approach for
measuring criminal behavior and discusses its strengths or
weaknesses for explaining the facts of crime or answers to central
issues of criminological inquiry. The book describes the state of
the field on different approaches for measuring crime and
criminality as seen by prominent scholars in the field. Among the
featured contributions are: The Use of Official Reports and
Victimization Data for Testing Criminological Theories; The Design
and Analysis of Experiments in Criminology; and Growth
Curve/Mixture Models for Measuring Criminal Careers. Also included
are papers titled: Counterfactual Methods of Causal Inference and
Their Application to Criminology; Measuring Gene-Environment
Interactions in the Cause of Antisocial Behavior and What Has Been
Gained and Lost through Longitudinal Research and Advanced
Statistical Models? This volume of "Advances in Criminological
Theory" illustrates how understanding the various ways criminal
behavior is measured is useful for developing theoretical insights
on the causes of crime.
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