Juvenile delinquency and adult crime, 1948-1977 [Racine, Wisconsin]

Description

This data collection contains data on juvenile delinquency and adult crime for three birth cohorts in Racine, Wisconsin. The three birth cohorts are for the years 1942, 1949, and 1955. The 1942 cohort consists of 1,352 persons, the 1949 cohort of 2,099 persons, and the 1955 cohort of 2,676, for a total of 6,127 persons. These data are organized into 3 basic types of datasets: (1) Indiviudal-level 'Police contact' data for all 3 cohorts, (2) Individual-level interview and contact data for the 1942 and 1949 cohorts, and (3) Individual-level contact data classified by age for all three cohorts, 'Age-by-Age' data. There are 8 data files in all. The individual-level contact data sets, referred to as the 'police contact data,' contain equivalent data for all three cohorts. The data consist of the type and frequency of police contacts by individuals as well as the date, location, and number of the first contact. Individual cohort members are the units of analysis. The interview datasets contain data on police contacts as well as a number of variables measured during personal interviews with a sample of the 1942 and 1949 cohorts. The interview variables include retrospective measures of the respondent's perception of his or her past police contacts, attitudes toward the police, and a variety of other variables such as socioeconomic status and age at marriage.