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Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984

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Principal Investigator(s): Singer, Simon I.

Summary: This data collection was designed to assess the effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law on the rate of violent crime committed by juveniles. The data were collected to estimate the deterrent effects of the law and to permit the use of an interrupted time-series model to gauge the effects of intervention. The deterrent effects of the law are assessed on five types of violent offenses over a post-intervention period of 75 months using two comparison time series to control for t... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09324.v1

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