Armed Criminals in America - A Survey of Incarcerated Felons, 1983

• NCJ Number: 104293
• Author(s): J Wright; P Rossi
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 199 pages
• Corporate Author: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Publication Type: Measurement/Evaluation Device
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This codebook describes the data set and presents the questionnaire, coding information, and results of a survey of weapons use and other behaviors and characteristics of 1,874 incarcerated felons.

Abstract

Study data were gathered in 1983 using self-administered questionnaires given to a nonprobability sample of felons in 10 States. Information includes the inmates' socioeconomic status, prior criminal record, drug use, weapon use, family history, and demographic information. Data cover a total of 600 variables. Each case has 10 records of information. The codebook contains information about the original questionnaire wording, the responses, the coding of the data, frequencies, and values for missing data.