Using Longitudinal Self-Report Data to Study the Age-Crime Relationship
Given the growing reliance on longitudinal self-report data for making causal inferences about crime, it is essential to investigate whether the within-individual change in criminal involvement exists and is not a measurement artifact driven by attrition or survey fatigue—a very real possibility fir...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2018
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 367-396 |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
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Summary: | Given the growing reliance on longitudinal self-report data for making causal inferences about crime, it is essential to investigate whether the within-individual change in criminal involvement exists and is not a measurement artifact driven by attrition or survey fatigue—a very real possibility first identified by Lauritsen (Soc Forces 77(1):127-154, 1998) using the National Youth Survey (NYS). The current study examines whether the same threats to the validity of within-individual change in criminal involvement exist in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort (NLSY97). |
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ISSN: | 1573-7799 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10940-017-9338-9 |