Summary information

Study title

Crime in the Modern City. A Longitudinal Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Münster - wave 3 (2002)

Creator

Boers, Klaus (Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster)
Reinecke, Jost (Fachbereich IV, Abteilung Soziologie, Universität Trier)

Study number / PID

ZA7478, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.13285 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Victimization, self-reported delinquency, educational styles, conflict behavior, attitudes towards crime, lifestyles, leisure and consumption styles. Topics: Life satisfaction; group of friends: clique affiliation; frequency of contact with this clique; composition of the clique according to sex and nationality; characterisation of the clique (joint visits to pubs, discos, concerts, hostile groups, feeling of acceptance only within the group, use of violence to assert interests, joint theatre, music or newspaper, fighting with other groups, learning for school, respect for other people, hanging around, drinking alcohol, doing something forbidden for fun); attitude towards foreigners (scale); preferred groups as for instance Rapper or no preferred group; preferred music style; recreational styles: duration per day for television or watching videos; favourite programmes (film genre); reading time per day (books and magazines); internet use per day; playing time computer and console; favourite games; hours per week for jobbing; frequency of sports; main sports; practising the main sport in a sports club, circle of friends, gym or alone; leisure activities; self-characterization (accept other opinions, take advantage of someone, don´t hesitate to help someone in need, keep promises, don´t return borrowed items, only help because of expected return); problems (e.g. with school performance requirements, teachers, parents, boyfriend, police, future prospects, etc.); self-assessment of risk appetite with regard to health and legal as well as financial matters; willingness to take various risky actions (e.g. S-Bahn surfing, throwing stones from a bridge onto moving cars, bungee jumping, etc.). Consumption style: preferred clothes or brands. Lifestyles (urge for new experiences, no dirty work for others, fun and consumption, doing what one feels like doing, somehow one always gets along, achieving one´s life goal through fulfilling one´s duties, political and social...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

21/01/2002 - 04/03/2002

Country

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Panel
Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

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Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2019

Terms of data access

C - Data and documents are only released for academic research and teaching after the data depositor's written authorization. For this purpose the Data Archive obtains a written permission with specification of the user and the analysis intention.

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