Sanctions in the Justice System, 1942-1977: The Effects on Offenders in Racine, Wisconsin (ICPSR 8530)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Lyle Shannon

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08530.v1

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Summary

The purpose of this data collection was to evaluate the effectiveness of judicial intervention and varying degrees of sanction severity by comparing persons who have been processed at the juvenile or adult level in the justice system with persons who have not. The main research question was whether the number of judicial interventions and severity of sanctions had any effects on the seriousness of offenders' future offenses or the decision to desist from such behavior. Variables include characteristics of the person who had the police contact as well as items specific to a particular police contact. Others are the number of police contacts, seriousness of police contacts, severity of sanctions, and age, cohort, and decade the contact occurred.

Citation

Shannon, Lyle. Sanctions in the Justice System, 1942-1977: The Effects on Offenders in Racine, Wisconsin. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08530.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (84-IJ-CX-0013)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1942 -- 1976

Date of Collection

1984

Data Collection Notes

  1. The files are contact-by-contact data files, that is, the contact (not the person) is the unit of analysis. Each contact becomes a record. There can be multiple records (contacts) per individual. Each individual is identified by the variable called UID (UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER).

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Sample

The sample population included 6,127 persons from three birth cohorts, (1942, 1949, and 1955).

Universe

Persons in Racine, Wisconsin born in 1942, 1949 and 1955.

Data Source

personal interviews, and official police records

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1987-01-12

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:

  • Shannon, Lyle. Sanctions in the Justice System, 1942-1977: The Effects on Offenders in Racine, Wisconsin. ICPSR08530-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1985. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08530.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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Notes

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