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Patterns of Juvenile Delinquency and Co-Offending in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1976-1994

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Principal Investigator(s): McCord, Joan

Summary: In an attempt to inform and advance the literature on co-offending, this study tracked through time the patterns of criminal behavior among a sample of offenders and their accomplices. This study consists of a random sample of 400 offenders selected from all official records of arrest (N=60,821) for offenders under age 18 in Philadelphia in 1987. Half of the offenders selected committed a crime alone and half committed a crime with an accomplice. Criminal history data from January 1976 to Decemb... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03598.v1

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