Measuring and analyzing the emergence of crime

Editors’ Introduction In the final chapter of the volume, Sullivan discusses pragmatic data collection and analysis issues faced by researchers interested in studying crime emergence. In large part, this volume is focused on utilizing the broader concept of emergence to better understand crime and criminality. This chapter provides a more concrete consideration of what might be necessary for the discipline to develop and grow a research agenda on this front. Furthermore, it demonstrates that scholars do not have to use computational simulation modeling when adopting an emergence perspective-instead, they can turn to several other methods with which they are likely to be already acquainted.