Details

Editor

O'Connell, Daniel J. [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 34142. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 34142

Restrictions note

Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

The purpose of this study was to follow former drug-involved offenders from initial prison release to 20 years post-release to understand life course trajectories of recidivism, drug use, and desistance from crime.

Type of data

administrative records data

Time and place of event

• Data collected 2009 Phase I administrative records
• Data collected 2009 through 2011 Phase II interviews

Funding information

Sponsored by United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice 2008-IJ-CX-0017

Methodology note

Drug-involved offenders originally released from the Delaware prison system in the early 1990s.

Contents

• Study-Level Files
• Arrest Records Data
• Interview Subsample Demographics and Trajectory Modeling Groups Data

Provenance

2023-10-26 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Cite as

Bachman, Ronet, and O'Connell, Daniel J. Roads Diverge: Long-Term Patterns of Relapse, Recidivism, and Desistance for a Re-entry Cohort, Delaware, 1956-2008. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-10-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34142.v1

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