Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984

This data collates monthly counts of arrests of juveniles for violent crime as reported by by police jurisdictions. Data are presented in counts broken down by type of crime; jurisdictions are grouped into regions. The original study was longitudinal and designed to assess the effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law (1978) on incidences of violent crime by juveniles.

Shared Dataset Variables

Variable Name	Description
INCIDENCECRIMEPERSON	measurement of a crime committed by or afflicted on a person
INCIDENCECRIMEPLACE	variables that measure some kind of law violation linked to a place (not to a person)
MONTH	the month of an event or occurrence (not related to a person's life event)
PLACEADDRESS	an address recorded in a dataset
PLACECITY	the named city that is being measured in a dataset
PLACECOUNTRY	the named country that is being measured in a dataset
PLACESTATEUS	the named state (us) that is being measured in a dataset
YEAR	the year of an event or occurrence (not related to a person's life event)