Criminal spin theory developed by Ronel intends to provide a more comprehensive explanation of criminal behavior. It includes wide-ranging factors that impact human behavior at an individual, group, and cultural level. According to criminal spin theory, an event or a set of events can impact human emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. With the accumulations of the influence of life events and unusual emotions and thoughts, one can develop a criminal spin in which one's self-centeredness becomes an extreme quality and self-control will gradually diminish. Moreover, three other traits (lack of empathy, narrowed perceptions and feelings, and criminal mindsets) will be co-manifested (Ronel, 2009; 2011). The existing literature provided abundant and rich descriptions and interpretation of criminality and criminal behavior. Nevertheless, several issues have been noticed, such as testability of a scientific theory, practicability of the theory, and the overlapping concepts of self-control, self-centeredness, and empathy. Therefore, the current study intended to develop a criminal spin measure and examine criminal spin theory. A sample of 409 university students was recruited to complete a self-report survey. On the questionnaire, students were asked to answer various feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. The scales adopted in this study are adequate, except the self-negation scale because it is not correlated with empathy as described in the theory. However, the internal consistency of self-negation is very high, so another possible explanation can be that a relationship may not actually exist between self-negation and empathy. Also, by using "k"-means clustering, this study was able to distinguish students in no spin from respondents in criminal spin. Nevertheless, acute and chronic spin could not be identified in this study. With the performance of negative binomial hurdle model, a relationship between stress, spin type, and prescription drug abuse was found. Policy implications, research limitations, and direction of future research were also discussed. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]