Introduction /Alex R. Piquero and David Weisburd --pt. I-A. Descriptive approaches for research and policy : innovative descriptive methods for crime and justice problems --Crime mapping : spatial and temporal challenges /Jerry Ratcliffe --Look before you analyze : visualizing data in criminal justce /Michael D. Maltz --Group-based trajectory modeling : an overview /Daniel S. Nagin --General growth mixture analysis with antecedents and consequences of change /Hanno Petras and Katheryn Masyn --Spatial regression models in criminology : modeling social processes in the spatial weights matrix /George E. Tita and Steven M. Radil --Mixed method research in criminology : why not go both ways? /Shadd Maruna --pt. I-B. Descriptive approaches for research and policy : new estimation techniques for assessing crime and justice policy --Estimating the cost of crime /Mark A. Cohen and Roger Bowles --Estimating treatment effects : matching quantification to the question /Thomas A. Loughran and Edward P. Mulvey --Meta-analysis /David B. Wilson --Social network analysis /Jean Marie McGloin and David S. Kirk --Systematic social observations in criminology /Stephen D. Mastrofski, Roger B. Parks, and John D. McCluskey --pt. II. New directions in assessing design, measurement and data quality --Identifying and addressing response errors in self-report surveys /James P. Lynch and Lynn A. Addington --Missing data problems in criminological research /Robert Brame, Michael G. Turner, and Ray Paternoster --The life event calendar method in criminological research /Jennifer Roberts and Julie Horney --Statistical power /Chester L. Britt and David Weisburd --Descriptive validity and transparent reporting in randomised controlled trials /Amanda E. Perry --Measurement error in criminal justice data /John Pepper, Carol Petrie, and Sean Sullivan --Statistical models of life events and criminal behavior /D. Wayne Osgood --pt. III-A. Estimation of impacts and outcomes of crime and justice : topics in experimental methods --An introduction to experimental criminology /Lawrence W. Sherman --Randomized block designs /Barak Ariel and David P. Farrington --Construct validity : the importance of understanding the nature of the intervention under study /John S. Goldkamp --Place randomized trials /Robert Boruch, David Weisburd, and Richard Berk --Longitudinal-experimental studies /David P. Farrington, Rolf Loeber, and Brandon C. Welsh --Multisite trials in criminal justice settings : trials and tribulations of field experiments /Faye S. Taxman and Anne Giuranna Rhodes --pt. III-B. Estimation of impacts and outcomes of crime and justice : innovation in quasi-experimental design --Propensity score matching in criminology and criminal justice /Robert J. Apel and Gary Sweeten --Recent perspectives on the regression discontinuity design /Richard Berk --Testing theories of criminal decision making : some empirical questions about hypothetical scenarios /M. Lynn Exum and Jeffrey A. Bouffard --Instrumental variables in criminology and criminal justice /Shawn D. Bushway and Robert J. Apel --pt. III-C. Estimation of impacts and outcomes of crime and justice : non-experimental approaches to explaining crime and justice outcomes --Multilevel analysis in the study of crime and justice /Brian D. Johnson --Logistic regression models for categorical outcomes variables /Chester L. Britt and David Weisburd --Count models in criminology /John M. MacDonald and Pamela K. Lattimore --Statistical analysis of spatial crime data /Wim Bernasco and Henk Elffers --An introduction to statistical learning from a regression perspective /Richard Berk --Estimating effects over time for single and multiple units /Laura Dugan --Index.