NCJ Number
96146
Date Published
1981
Length
219 pages
Annotation
The variable description list and the codebook are provided for the 1976 survey of inmates in five California prisons to obtain self-reports on crimes committed prior to incarceration.
Abstract
An introduction describes the study and discusses data collection, sampling, weighting, information processing, file structure, and codebook information. The self-report method was used to obtain extensive information about respondents' prior criminal records, juvenile criminality, drug use, and economic and social-psychological characteristics that might be associated with criminal behavior. One file contains the survey data and a second contains frequency counts for all the variables. There are 624 respondents with 378 variables per respondent. The data come in two formats: a card-image file and an OSIRIS data set. Notes on various aspects of the study methodology are appended.