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Description & Citation--Study No. 8928 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 8928 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08928 |
| Title: | Longitudinal Study of Biosocial Factors Related to Crime and Delinquency, 1959-1962: [Pennsylvania] |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Deborah W. Denno |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice |
| Grant Number: | 81-IJ-CX-0086(S1) |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Denno, Deborah W. Longitudinal Study of Biosocial Factors Related to Crime and Delinquency, 1959-1962: [Pennsylvania] [Computer file]. ICPSR08928-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08928 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This study was designed to measure the effects of family background and developmental characteristics on school achievement and delinquency within a "high risk" sample of Black youths. The study includes variables describing the mother and the child. Mother-related variables assess prenatal health, pregnancy and delivery complications, and socioeconomic status. Child-related variables focus on the child at age 7 and include place in birth order, physical development, family constellation, socioeconomic status, verbal and spatial intelligence, and number of offenses. |
| Subject Term(s): | academic achievement, African Americans, child development, crime, delinquent behavior, family background, mothers |
| Geographic Coverage: | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Time Period: | 1959 - 1962 |
| Data Type: | clinical data |
| event/transaction data | |
| survey data | |
| Data Collection Notes: | Producer: Collaborative Perinatal Project and the University of Pennsylvania, Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, Philadelphia, PA, 1969. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | Subjects were selected from a sample of 2,958 Black children whose mothers participated in the Collaborative Perinatal Project at Pennsylvania Hospital between 1959 and 1962. |
| Data Source: | hospital records, public school records, and police records |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1988-10-25 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04. |
| 2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. | |
| 1998-12-17 - Hard-coded periods in the original data were replaced by nines. This resulted in a longer record length for the data file. Also, SAS and SPSS data definition statements were added to the collection, and the original codebook was converted to a PDF file. | |
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