NDLI: Scaling Criminal Offending

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Sweeten, Gary
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	This paper reviews a century of research on creating theoretically meaningful and empirically useful scales of criminal offending and illustrates their strengths and weaknesses.The history of scaling criminal offending is traced in a detailed literature review focusing on the issues of seriousness, unidimensionality, frequency, and additivity of offending. Modern practice in scaling criminal offending is measured using a survey of 130 articles published in five leading criminology journals over a two-year period that included a scale of individual offending as either an independent or dependent variable. Six scaling methods commonly used in contemporary criminological research are demonstrated and assessed using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979: dichotomous, frequency, weighted frequency, variety, summed category, and item response theory ‘theta’.The discipline of criminology has seen numerous scaling techniques introduced and forgotten. While no clearly superior method dominates the field today, the most commonly used scaling techniques are dichotomous and frequency scales, both of which are fraught with methodological pitfalls including sensitivity to the least serious offenses.Variety scales are the preferred criminal offending scale because they are relatively easy to construct, possess high reliability and validity, and are not compromised by high frequency non-serious crime types.
Starting Page	533
Ending Page	557
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07484518
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Volume Number	28
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737799
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-12-23
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Crime scales Item response theory Variety scales Statistics Methodology of the Social Sciences Criminology & Criminal Justice Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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