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"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

CONTENTS: The Problem of Murder; The Murderer; Methods of Murder; Victims of Homicide; The Psychology of Murder; The Urge to Confess; Mass Murderers and Serial Murderers; Sex Murders; Madness and Murder; Character Disorder and Murder; Children and Adolescents Who Kill; Self-Murder; Criminal Investigation; The Death Penalty; Prevention of Criminal Homicide; Homicide in Fiction

Robbery accounts for almost half the crimes of violence in the United States today. There are many books written on famous robbers, but few on the crime of robbery. This book explores armed robbery from many viewpoints. The actual words used by the robber to describe the crime, the use of violence and his experiences ""on the run"" are quoted at length. The victim is also allowed to tell his story. Their accounts contribute to the understanding of the crime and its impact on victims. Lieutenant Donald Brannan, who spent eleven years in the Denver Police Department investigating robberies, is A