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Measuring Crime and Criminality / John MacDonald.

"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 behaviour and discusses its strengths or weaknesses for explaining the facts of c...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: MacDonald, John (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Criminology > Research.
Criminal behavior.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 The Self-Report Method and the Development of Criminological Theory / Criminological Theory
  • chapter 2 Socially Desirable Response Bias in Criminology: An Example of Its Effect in Testing the Effects of Self-Control / Self-Control
  • chapter 3 How Do We Measure the Severity of Crimes? New Estimates of the Cost of Criminal Victimization, / John K. Roman
  • chapter 4 Communities and Crime Theories: Construct Validation Deficits, a Paucity of Comparisons, and a Boudon-Coleman Metamodel Resolution / Metamodel Resolution
  • chapter 5 The Coming of a Networked Criminology?, Andrew V / Papachristos
  • chapter 6 What Can Genetically Informed Research Tell Us about the Causes of Crime?, Candice L. Odgers and / Michael A. Russell
  • chapter 7 Bounding Disagreements about Treatment Effects with an Application to Criminology, Charles F. Manski and / Daniel S. Nagin
  • chapter 8 Randomized Experiments and the Advancement of Criminological Theory / Criminological Theory
  • chapter 9 Causal Inference via Natural Experiments and Instrumental Variables: The Effect of?Knifing Off? from the Past, David S. Kirk
  • chapter 10 Criminal Career Research: A Statistical and Substantive Comparison of Growth Modeling Approaches, / Christopher J. Sullivan
  • chapter 11 Understanding Desistance: Theory Testing with Formal Empirical Models / Formal Empirical Models
  • chapter 12 Meta-Analysis and the Relative Support for Various Criminological Theories, Ojmarrh Mitchell

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