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Description & Citation--Study No. 8928

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8928
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08928
 
Title:Longitudinal Study of Biosocial Factors Related to Crime and Delinquency, 1959-1962: [Pennsylvania]
 
Principal Investigator(s):Deborah W. Denno
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Justice. National Institutes of Justice.
 
Grant Number:81-IJ-CX-0086(S1)
 
Bibliographic Citation:Denno, Deborah W. LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF BIOSOCIAL FACTORS RELATED TO CRIME AND DELINQUENCY, 1959-1962: [PENNSYLVANIA] [Computer file]. Philadelphia, PA: Collaborative Perinatal Project and University of Pennsylvania, Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law [producers], 1969. 2nd ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08928
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study was designed to measure the effects of family background and developmental characteristics on school achievement and delinquency within a "high risk" sample of Black youths. The study includes variables describing the mother and the child. Mother-related variables assess prenatal health, pregnancy and delivery complications, and socioeconomic status. Child-related variables focus on the child at age 7 and include place in birth order, physical development, family constellation, socioeconomic status, verbal and spatial intelligence, and number of offenses.
 
Subject Term(s):academic achievement, African Americans, child development, crime, delinquent behavior, family background, mothers
 
Geographic Coverage:Pennsylvania, United States
 
Time Period:1959 - 1962
 
Data Type:event/transaction data, and clinical data
 
Data Collection Notes:The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.
 

Methodology

Sample:Subjects were selected from a sample of 2,958 Black children whose mothers participated in the Collaborative Perinatal Project at Pennsylvania Hospital between 1959 and 1962.
 
Data Source:hospital records, public school records, and police records
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1988-10-25
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04.
 
  2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
 
  1998-12-17 - Hard-coded periods in the original data were replaced by nines. This resulted in a longer record length for the data file. Also, SAS and SPSS data definition statements were added to the collection, and the original codebook was converted to a PDF file.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Longitudinal Study of Biosocial Factors Related to Crime and Delinquency, 1959-1962: [Pennsylvania]
 

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