The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY) are one of NORC's signal contributions to social science research, but we have not historically been as well known for the analysis of these data. With this project, NORC, with partners at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany and the University of Maryland will work with the project sponsor, Bureau of Justice Statistics, to create a public-use database from the 1997 cohort of the NLSY data to establish a research agenda to understand the social, economic, and educational factors that influence recidivism rates and successful reentry into society.
Products will include a public-use data file of created variables from the NLSY97 data suitable for investigating the developmental patterns and correlates of recidivism among American youth.
In addition, three peer-review quality research papers will be written by the research team.