Sanctions in the justice system, 1942-1977
Subtitle: the effects on offenders in Racine, Wisconsin
By: principal investigator, Lyly Shannon
Series: ICPSR -- 8530; ICPSR (Series) -- 8530
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 880
Subjects: Crime; Sanctions (Law)
Description: The purpose of this data collection was to evaluate the effectiveness of judicial intervention and varying degrees of sanction severity by comparing persons who have been processed at the juvenile or adult level in the justice system with persons who have not. The main research question was whether the number of judicial interventions and severity of sanctions had any effects on the seriousness of offenders' future offenses or the decision to desist from such behavior. Variables include characteristics of the person who had the police contact as well as items specific to a particular police contact. Others are the number of police contacts, seriousness of police contacts, severity of sanctions, and age, cohort, and decade the contact occurred.
Notes: Survey data, and event/transaction data.

Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1942-1976; Data collected: 1984.

Personal interviews, and official police records.

Racine, Wisconsin.

United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice, 84-IJ-CX-0013.

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The files are contact-by-contact data files, that is, the contact (not the person) is the unit of analysis. Each contact becomes a record. There can be multiple records (contacts) per individual. Each individual is identified by the variable called UID (Unique Identification Number).

Part number: 1 ; part name: Interview and Police Contact Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 15,245 ; variable count: 198 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 12.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Police Contact data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 15,245 ; variable count: 96 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 12.

The sample population included 6,127 persons from three birth cohorts, (1942, 1949, and 1955).

Universe: Persons in Racine, Wisconsin born in 1942, 1949 and 1955.

Shannon, Lyle. A more precise evaluation of the effects of sanctions. in press.