RT Book
T1 Measuring crime & criminality
T2 Advances in criminological theory
JF Advances in criminological theory
A2 MacDonald, John M. 1972-
LA English
PP New Brunswick, NJ u.a.
PB Transaction Publ.
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/683904620
AB Includes bibliographical references and index
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6024.5
SN 1412814812
SN 9781412814812
K1 Criminology : Research
K1 Criminal Behavior
K1 Criminal behavior
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Kriminalitätstheorie : Forschungsmethode : Messung
K1 Kriminalitätserfassung
K1 Kriminologische Theorien
K1 Theorieprüfung
K1 Kriminalitätsursachen
K1 Methodenfragen