RT Article
T1 Computer-assisted versus paper-and-pencil self-report delinquency surveys: results of an experimental study
JF European journal of criminology
VO 15
IS 4
SP 385
OP 402
A1 Baier, Dirk 1976-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1580076637
AB Self-report delinquency studies among adolescents are frequently conducted as paper-and-pencil studies. With the introduction of computers in schools, a new infrastructure for interviewing students is available. Until now only a few criminological studies deal with the question of whether paper-and-pencil and computer-assisted surveys lead to the same results. This question is analysed using a paper-and-pencil sample of 2033 adolescents and a netbook sample of 610 adolescents. In contrast to other experiments, not only are prevalence rates of delinquent behaviour compared but also prevalence rates of factors influencing delinquent behaviour, correlations between these factors and the behaviour, missing values and evaluations of the survey by the adolescents. Among others, the analyses differentiate between gender and educational groups. All in all, largely no differences were found between the two methods regarding all these topics. The netbook survey obtained the same results as the paper-and-pencil survey.
K1 Adolescents
K1 Computer-assisted survey
K1 Delinquency
K1 Methods experiment
K1 Paper-and-pencil survey
DO 10.1177/1477370817743482