Measures of Crime: A Pressing Issue for the Future of Criminology - Forensic Science & Medicine

“Measurement is the basis of all science” [1, p. 70]. Regardless of the subject matter, whether in physics or chemistry, psychology or criminology, every scientific discovery has a measurement process attached. A process that can be more or less complex, depending on the accuracy intended and, of course, the complexity of the object in question. In the particular case of criminology, where crime is the fundamental  object  of  study,  researchers  struggle  with  a  variable  that is inherently difficult to measure.

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