Autobiographical accounts of property offenses by youths at UCLA, 1983-1984
By: principal investigator, Jack Katz
Series: ICPSR -- 8950; ICPSR (Series) -- 8950
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Offenses against property; College students; Criminal behavior; Compulsive behavior
Description: These data examine the attraction of shoplifting and vandalism to nonprofessional offenders. The data consists of actual autobiographical accounts of offenses committed by undergraduates enrolled in three sections of undergraduate criminology classes at the University of California, Los Angeles. Verbatim answers of the respondents are presented.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class III.

Chronological coverage: 1984-1984. Data collection: 1983-1984.

Voluntary self reports.

Machine-readable text.

California.

Card image data format. This dataset is a machine-readable text file. For reasons of confidentiality names have been blanked from the data and replaced with spaces. Profanity has also been blanked and replaced with spaces. The number of records per case in this file varies from nine to 70 depending on the length of statement given by each respondent.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 122 ; variable count: 2 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: inap.

The sample consisted of 250 students in three offerings of an undergraduate criminology class.

Universe: Undergraduate university students in the United States.

Katz, Jack. "Sneaky Thrills." Seductions of crime. New York: Basic Books, 1988.