The purpose of this Element is to unmask the 'hidden' measurement crisis in criminology and provide a case study demonstrating how to build a measure of a prominent criminological construct through modern systematic psychometric methods. The goal is to reveal the nature of the field's measurement cr...

The purpose of this Element is to unmask the 'hidden' measurement crisis in criminology and provide a case study demonstrating how to build a measure of a prominent criminological construct through modern systematic psychometric methods. The goal is to reveal the nature of the field's measurement crisis and show a strategy for solving it.