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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. National Institutes 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]. Philadelphia, PA: Collaborative Perinatal Project and University of Pennsylvania, Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law [producers], 1969. 2nd ICPSR version. 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: | event/transaction data, and clinical data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet. |
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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