Delinquency in a Birth Cohort in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 1945-1963 - Individual File - Delinquency in a Birth Cohort in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 1945-1963 - Offense File

• NCJ Number: 96150
• Author(s): M E Wolfgang; R Figlio; T Sellin
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 60 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Mental Health
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Issued in two parts.

Annotation

The variable description lists and codebooks are provided for the two files -- individual and offense files -- of a study of delinquency patterns for a 1946 birth cohort of 9,944 boys who lived in Philadelphia from ages 10 to 18.

Abstract

An introduction describes the study and discusses data collection procedures, file structure, weighting, information processing, and codebook information. Data for the analysis were collected from the records of the Philadelphia public, private, and parochial schools and from the records of the Philadelphia police department's juvenile aid division. Much of the research considered four questions: when the delinquency of a cohort boy first brought him to the attention of the police, whether he desisted from or persisted in committing further delinquent acts, the extent of harm inflicted on the community by his misdeeds, and whether the seriousness of his delinquent activities increased or decreased with age. The data are available in two formats: a card-image file and an OSIRIS data set. A glossary is provided.