Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime, 1948-1977 [Racine, Wisconsin]: Three Birth Cohorts
Description
This data collection contains information on juvenile
delinquency and adult crime for three birth cohorts born in 1942, 1949,
and 1955 in Racine, Wisconsin. These individual-level data are
organized into three basic types: police contact data for the three
cohorts, interview and contact data for the 1942 and 1949 cohorts, and
contact data classified by age for all three cohorts. The police
contact data include information on the type and frequency of police
contacts by individual as well as the location, date, and number of the
first contact. The interview datasets contain information on police
contacts and a number of variables measured during personal interviews
with the 1942 and 1949 cohorts. The interview variables include
retrospective measures of the respondents' attitudes toward the police
and a variety of other variables such as socioeconomic status and age
at marriage. The age-by-age datasets provide juvenile court and police
contact data classified by age.