Summary information

Study title

Crime in the Modern City. A Longitudinal Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Münster - wave 4 (2003)

Creator

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

Study number / PID

ZA7479, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.13286 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Victimisation, self-reported delinquency, educational styles, conflict behaviour, attitudes towards crime, lifestyles, leisure and consumption styles. Topics: Future confidence; group of friends: clique affiliation; frequency of contact with this clique; composition of the clique according to gender 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, brawls 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 such as Rapper or no preferred group; preferred music style or no preferred music style; favorite band or no favorite band; leisure styles: duration per day for television or watching videos; favorite shows (movie genre); reading time per day (books and magazines); Internet use and email per day; playing time computer and console; duration homework per day; number of books in the household; weekly hours for jobbing; frequency of sports; main sports; playing main sports in sports clubs, with friends, at the gym or alone; playing frequency of selected computer and console games; favorite game or games; and no favourite game; leisure activities; self-characterisation (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 consideration); problems (e.g. with school performance requirements, teachers, parents, boyfriend, police, future prospects, etc.); problem-solving competence. Consumption style: preferred clothes or brands. Lifestyles (urge for new experiences, no dirty work for others, fun and consumption, doing what one wants to do, somehow one always gets along, achieving one´s life goal by fulfilling one´s duties, observing God´s...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

14/01/2003 - 24/02/2003

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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