Changing Patterns Of Delinquency And Crime by Lyle W. Shannon

Author:Lyle W. Shannon [Shannon, Lyle W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Criminology, Sociology
ISBN: 9780429715044
Google: 7qqbDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-08T04:53:33+00:00

TABLE 6.2 DISPOSITION OF THEIR MOST SERIOUS NON-TRAFFIC POLICE CONTACTS FOR COMBINED COHORT MEMBERS, AGES 13 THROUGH 22, BY TWO-YEAR PERIODS* * If a cohort member had more than one police contact during any two-year period, the most serious was selected, and if there were two of equal seriousness, the one receiving the most severe disposition was selected.

Beginning and Following Age Periods

Commencing at Ages 13-14. We next examined the status of offenders at the two-year age period of 13-14 and at each following two-year age period, as shown in Table 6.3. The Ns at the right hand side of each segment of the table correspond to the appropriate Ns for ages 13-14 in that table (this does not include the No Contact either age period category, which increased in number from 2,905 at ages 13-14 and 15-16 to 3,008 for the ages 19-20 and 21-22). Several persons from each panel were also eliminated because their categories were so small that there would have been unnecessary cluttering in the four panels of the table. The percentages for each of the ages 13-14 categories are shown as are the Ns and percentages of each offense and dispositional category for each age period beyond ages 13-14.

The marginals assist us in describing categorical change (what went on inside of each age segment of the table). By reading across each row of each age segment of the table (omitting the subtables) one may observe how the persons in each of the five categories at the left of the table at ages 13-14 were distributed at ages 15-16, 17-18, 19-20, and 21-22. These distributions differ in following age periods on a basis of the behavior of cohort members and how society had responded to their behavior in the previous age period. For example, 47.5% of the 451 with unreferred contacts at ages of 13-14, had no police contacts at ages 15-16. This increased to 72.5% at ages 21-22. And, although 27.5% of the 451 had an unreferred non-traffic contact at ages 15-16, this had declined to 17.3% by ages 21-22. Similarly, if one examines the 117 cohort members in the Non-Felony Referred: Dismissed category for ages 13-14, one finds an increase in the percent with no contact from age period to age period, 36.8% to 74.4%.

Overall, the figures in the No Contact (left hand column of Table 6.3) indicate that within each two-year tables from 15-16, 17-18, 19-20, and 21-22 there was a general decline in the percent who had no contact in the following age period, starting with the 451 with unreferred contacts and ending with the ten who had referred felonies resulting in institutionalization (i.e., 47.5% to .0%, 54.1% to 10.0%, 67.9% to 20.0%, 72.5% to 60.0%). Thus, the undesirable effects of early institutionalization seemed to wear off slowly compared to the effects of probation or dismissal.

As one proceeds from having a non-referred contact to a felony contact culminating in institutionalization, the percent who had at least one felony referral in the next two-year period tends to increase within each two-year segment of the table.

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