Termination of Criminal Careers : Measurement of Rates and Their Determinants in Detroit SMSA, 1974-1977 / Jacqueline Cohen, Alfred Blumstein.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Cohen, Jacqueline.

Blumstein, Alfred.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9666.

ICPSR ; 9666

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminals--Michigan--Detroit Metropolitan Area.

Criminals.

Crime analysis--Michigan.

Crime analysis.

Criminal behavior, Prediction of.

Michigan.

Michigan--Detroit Metropolitan Area.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The purpose of this collection was to measure the length of criminal careers and to correlate these lengths with other characteristics such as age, race, sex, type of crimes committed, and frequency of prior arrests. Determining the length of criminal activity and its relation to other attributes is important in planning for services such as prison space. Because of the difficulty in directly monitoring illegal acts, arrests were used instead as an indicator of criminal activity. Arrest data were gathered for murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, and automobile theft. Using the first arrest as an adult which took place between 1974 and 1977 as a reference point, individuals' prior and continued activities were followed. The data provide basic demographic information about offenders and extensive information about arrests, from arrest charges through final disposition.

Contents:

Part 1: Data File; Part 2: SAS Data Definition Statements

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1926; and end: 1982.

OCLC:

61163393

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.