RT Research Data
T1 Edinburgh Study of youth transitions and crime : waves one to four, 1997-2001
A1 Smith, David J.
LA English
PP Colchester
PB UK Data Service
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1876272252
AB Since the end of the second world war, police recorded crime has risen dramatically in both England and Wales and, to a lesser extent, Scotland. Crime surveys have revealed a less dramatic increase in crime in England and Wales (Mirrlees-Black et al, 1996), and little if any in Scotland (MVA, 1998), and suggest that increases in police recorded crime figures are largely due to an increased propensity for the public to report crime. There is evidence to suggest, however, that there has been a real increase in problem behaviour among young people, paralleled by postwar increases in other psychosocial disorders during the teenage years (Smith and Rutter, 1995). In addition, evidence consistently suggests that the rate of offending among males is higher than that among females, although the gap is starting to narrow. The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (ESYTC) aims to further our understanding of young people’s involvement in criminal behaviour, and explore the striking differences in offending rates and anti-social behaviour between males and females. It is a longitudinal study involving an entire year group of children, namely those eligible to start first year of secondary school in the City of Edinburgh in 1998. The cohort comprises approximately 4,300 young people who were aged between 11.5 and 12.5 years at the start of the study. Annual sweeps of data collection are conducted, with the intention of tracking the cohort through their teenage years and into early adulthood. The UK Data Archive currently holds data from Waves One to Four. While the study focuses entirely on criminal offending among a generation of young people within the City of Edinburgh, the findings are likely to be of wider national and international relevance and importance. National comparisons will be made with other related studies in Scotland and the rest of the UK (such as crime surveys, health and drug studies, etc). The international dimension will be developed through direct comparisons with cohort studies in Denver, Pittsburgh and Rochester, and links with other studies in Chicago, Philadelphia, Dunedin and Stockholm.
K1 Adults
K1 Age
K1 aggressiveness
K1 Alcohol use
K1 amphetamines
K1 Animals
K1 Arrest
K1 Arson
K1 asault
K1 Attitudes
K1 bedrooms
K1 broken families
K1 Bullying
K1 Burglary
K1 Cannabis
K1 Child care
K1 clubs
K1 Cocaine
K1 community identification
K1 court cases
K1 crime and security
K1 crime victims
K1 criminal damage
K1 cultural goods
K1 cultural participation
K1 Depression
K1 Digital Games
K1 Discipline
K1 Drug Abuse
K1 Drug addiction
K1 Drug trafficking
K1 Eating disorders
K1 ecstasy (drug)
K1 emotional disturbances
K1 emotional states
K1 Employment
K1 Environmental degradation
K1 Ethnic conflict
K1 exercise (physical activity)
K1 Families
K1 family environment
K1 Family Life
K1 Fashion
K1 father's economic activity
K1 Foster care
K1 Friends
K1 Health
K1 Higher Education
K1 hobbies
K1 Homework
K1 hours of work
K1 household pets
K1 Households
K1 housework
K1 ill helath
K1 Income
K1 interpersonal attraction
K1 Interpersonal Conflict
K1 Juvenile Delinquency
K1 leisure time activities
K1 listening to music
K1 Loneliness
K1 LSD (Drug)
K1 Mass Media
K1 mobile phones
K1 moral behaviour
K1 mother's economic acvtivity
K1 motor vehicles
K1 Neighbourhoods
K1 neighbours
K1 parent responsibility
K1 parent-chikd relationship
K1 parental role
K1 Parental supervision
K1 part-time employment
K1 peer-group relationships
K1 Personality
K1 pocket money
K1 police services
K1 Policing
K1 prizes (rewards)
K1 reading (activity)
K1 recreational facilities
K1 Refuse
K1 religious behaviour
K1 residential child care
K1 residential mobility
K1 Risk
K1 Robbery
K1 school clubs
K1 School discipline
K1 school-leaving
K1 Schools
K1 schoolteachers
K1 Self-esteem
K1 Sexual Harassment
K1 Shopping
K1 Siblings
K1 slimming diets
K1 Smoking
K1 social activities (leisure)
K1 Social Integration
K1 solvent aabuse
K1 Sport
K1 street lighting
K1 student behaviour
K1 Substance Use
K1 TATTOOING
K1 telephones
K1 television viewing
K1 Theft
K1 traffic
K1 Training
K1 tranquillizers
K1 Truancy
K1 Trust
K1 vagrants
K1 Weapons
K1 Young Offenders
K1 Youth
K1 youth activities
K1 youth clubs
K1 Youth Crime
K1 youth employment
K1 Youth gangs
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.5255/UKDA-SN-4800-1