Early identification of the chronic offender
By: principal investigators, Rudy Haapenan [sic] and Carl F. Jesness
Series: ICPSR -- 8226; ICPSR (Series) -- 8226
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Recidivists; Prediction of Criminal behavior; Crime analysis
Description: The patterns of adult criminal behavior are examined in this data collection. Data covering the adult years of peak criminal activity (from approximately 18 to 26 years of age) were obtained on three samples of delinquent youths who had been incarcerated in California Youth Authority institutions during the decade of the 1960s. Data were obtained from three sources: official arrest records of the California Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification (CII), supplementary data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the California Bureau of Vital Statistics. Follow-up data were collected between 1978 and 1980. The unit of analysis in this dataset is the individual offender. There are two files per sample. The first is a background data file containing information obtained while the subjects were housed in Youth Authority institutions, and the second is a follow-up history offense file containing data from arrest records. Each individual is identified by a unique ID number, which is the same in the background and offense history files.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1978-1980.

California.

Sample 1, 1,715 cases; sample 2, 982 cases; sample 3, 210 cases. Each case has 56 arrest variables. The samples have differing numbers of variables for the background information.