Criminology

Swedish immigrant crime data from the 1980s

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:11. February 2017
Post category:Criminology Immigration

I was skimming a Wikipedia article related to immigrant crime and came across an obscure Swedish language report from the 1990s: Ahlberg, J. (1996). Invandrares och invandrares barns brottslighet: En…

Predictions for an individual-level general crime factor study using Swedish register data

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:17. June 2016
Post category:Criminology Differential psychology/psychometrics intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

There is a lot of research on the link between crime and cognitive ability. (For criminal outcomes, see the problems in my previous post.) E.g. Is the Association between General…

Measurement error and behavioral genetics in criminology

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:16. June 2016
Post category:Criminology Genetics / behavioral genetics

I am watching Brian Boutwell's (Twitter, RG) talk at a recent conference and this got me thinking. https://youtu.be/yDm9bCgPKvs?list=PLD7ASfe52RybK4nYTZejG4-kQYqKI1rXX What are we measuring? As far as I know, there are typically…