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While the previous Chapter focused on official data, this Chapter is devoted to the second most well-known source of offending data, e.g., self-reports. As such, the Chapter begins with a very brief overview of how self-reported offending data is measured in the PYS and details the crime specific measures relied on for analysis. This brief discussion is followed by a presentation of a range of self-reported offending information from ages 10-30 for the Youngest and Oldest cohorts such as the prevalence of self-reported offending and the continuity of self-reported offending over time. These estimates are also provided by various age bands (as used in Chapter 2 for official records of delinquency) and by various types of crime. The next section of this Chapter moves toward a brief summary discussion of the arguments made in the literature regarding the relevance of comparing official and self-report sources of crime data. Finally, a series of analyses are undertaken to ‘scale up’ the official offending estimates from the previous Chapter based on the self-reported offending estimates reported in this Chapter in order to yield more accurate and comprehensive offending estimates for the PYS Youngest and Oldest cohorts.
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Jennings, W.G., Loeber, R., Pardini, D.A., Piquero, A.R., Farrington, D.P. (2016). Self-Reported Criminal Careers. In: Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25966-6_3
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