Measuring crime & criminality
By: John MacDonald, editor
Series: Advances in criminological theory -- v. 17
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; Transaction
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781412814812
Subjects: Criminology; Criminal behavior; Research
Other titles: Measuring crime and criminality
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the measurement of crime and estimating treatment effects in criminology / John M. MacDonald; title: The self-report method and the development of criminological theory / Terence P. Thornberry and Marvin D. Krohn; title: Socially desirable response bias in criminology : an example of its effect in testing the effects of self-control / John M. MacDonald, Andrew Morral, and Alex R. Piquero; title: How do we measure the severity of crimes? New estimates of the cost of criminal victimization / John K. Roman; title: Communities and crime theories : construct validation deficits, a paucity of comparisons, and a Boudon-Coleman metamodel resolution / Ralph B. Taylor; title: The coming of a networked criminology? / Andrew V. Papachristos; title: What can genetically informed research tell us about the causes of crime? / Candice L. Odgers and Michael A. Russell; title: Bounding disagreements about treatment effects with an application to criminology / Charles F. Manski and Daniel S. Nagin; title: Randomized experiments and the advancement of criminological theory / Geoffrey C. Barnes and Jordan M. Hyatt; title: Causal interference via natural experiments and instrumental variables : the effect of "knifing off" from the past / David S. Kirk; title: Criminal career research : a statistical and substantive comparison of growth modeling approaches / Christopher J. Sullivan and Alex R. Piquero; title: Understanding desistance : theory testing with formal empirical models / Shawn D. Bushway and Raymond Paternoster; title: Meta-analysis and the relative support for various criminological theories / Ojmarrh Mitchell.