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