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Delinquency in a Birth Cohort in Wuchang District, Wuhan, China, 1973-2000

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Principal Investigator(s): Friday, Paul C.; Ren, Xin; Weitekamp, Elmar

Summary: This study was designed by American criminologist Marvin Wolfgang as a replication of his DELINQUENCY IN A BIRTH COHORT studies conducted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ICPSR 7729 and ICPSR 9293). The focus of the study is a cohort of all persons born in 1973 in the Wuchang District of the city of Wuhan. This district was selected because it was a populous commercial and residential area. The cohort birth year was chosen to reflect the impact of major economic and social changes in China. Data i... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03751.v1

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