Delinquency in a Birth Cohort in Wuchang District, Wuhan, China, 1973-2000
Description
This study was designed by American criminologist Marvin
Wolfgang as a replication of his DELINQUENCY IN A BIRTH COHORT studies
conducted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ICPSR 7729 and ICPSR 9293).
The focus of the study is a cohort of all persons born in 1973 in the
Wuchang District of the city of Wuhan. This district was selected
because it was a populous commercial and residential area. The cohort
birth year was chosen to reflect the impact of major economic and
social changes in China. Data include interviews with all known
criminal offenders as of 1990 and with a matched comparison
sample. Additional residential, demographic, and updated criminal
history data as of 2000 were collected on all persons born in the
1973 Wuchang District cohort.