Autobiographical Accounts of Property Offenses by Youths at UCLA, 1983-1984 (ICPSR 8950)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Jack Katz

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08950.v1

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Summary

These data examine the attraction of shoplifting and vandalism to nonprofessional offenders. The data consists of actual autobiographical accounts of offenses committed by undergraduates enrolled in three sections of undergraduate criminology classes at the University of California, Los Angeles. Verbatim answers of the respondents are presented.

Citation

Katz, Jack. Autobiographical Accounts of Property Offenses by Youths at UCLA, 1983-1984. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08950.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1983 -- 1984

Date of Collection

1983 -- 1984

Data Collection Notes

  1. This dataset is a machine-readable text file. For reasons of confidentiality names have been blanked from the data and replaced with spaces. Profanity has also been blanked and replaced with spaces. The number of records per case in this file varies from nine to 70 depending on the length of statement given by each respondent.

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Sample

The sample consisted of 250 students in three offerings of an undergraduate criminology class.

Universe

Undergraduate university students in the United States.

Data Source

voluntary self reports

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1989-05-04

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Katz, Jack. Autobiographical Accounts of Property Offenses by Youths at UCLA, 1983-1984. ICPSR08950-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1989. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08950.v1
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.