Crime is most often a fundamental dependent variable. When you ask the question, what causes crime, the things you may study are who are the offenders, types, ages, victims, what is the descriptive nature, and you may also count the number of crimes that have been committed. Crime can also be considered an independent variable. You will ask things like how does the crime that was committed affect the actual sentencing outcomes, how does the types and number of crimes affect the overall fear of crime, and how does the levels of crime that is violent throughout the community impact the policing policies and decisions on a local level. The measurement of crime involves collecting the data that represents the problems that are being targeted. There are many other things, but this is a good summarization. This collection of data is considered the “outcome” measures, and it is very important that they actually represent the true scope of certain programs and their intentions as accurate as they can.…