Early Identification of the Chronic Offender, (1978-1980 California)

• NCJ Number: 101623
• Author(s): R Haapenan; C F Jesness
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 286 pages
• Grant Number(s): 79-IJ-AX-0114
• Corporate Author: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This manual describes the project history, samples, background data, followup procedure, outcome measures, publications, file processing, and data dictionaries for a 1978-80 California study to determine the extent to which chronic adult offenders could be identified early in their criminal careers.

Abstract

Extensive demographic, psychological, and behavioral data were obtained for three samples of incarcerated delinquents. These data are on three of the six data files. The other three files contain followup arrest history data for the three samples along with summary counts of arrests of various kinds.