Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
This data note describes a new resource for crime-related research: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) linked to regional police records. The police data were provided by Avon & Somerset Police (A&SP), whose area of responsibility contains the ALSPAC recruitment are...
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| author | Anna Ferrante Richard Thomas Alison Teyhan Andy Boyd Mark Mumme Rosie Cornish Iain Brennan John Macleod Adrian Brown Amy Dillon |
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| description | This data note describes a new resource for crime-related research: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) linked to regional police records. The police data were provided by Avon & Somerset Police (A&SP), whose area of responsibility contains the ALSPAC recruitment area. In total, ALSPAC had permission to link to crime records for 12,662 of the ‘study children’ (now adults, who were born in the early 1990s). The linkage took place in two stages: Stage 1 involved the ALSPAC Data Linkage Team establishing the linkage using personal identifiers common to both the ALSPAC participant database and A&SP records using deterministic and probabilistic methods. Stage 2 involved A&SP extracting attribute data on the matched individuals, removing personal identifiers and securely sharing the de-identified records with ALSPAC. The police data extraction took place in July 2021, when the participants were in their late 20s/early 30s. This data note contains details on the resulting linked police records available. In brief, electronic police records were available from 2007 onwards. In total, 1757 participants (14%) linked to at least one police record for a charge, offence ‘taken into consideration’, caution, or another out of court disposal. Linked participants had a total of 6413 records relating to 6283 offences. Almost three quarters of the linked participants were male. The most common offence types were violence against the person (22% of records), drug offences (19%), theft (17%) and public order offences (11%). This data note also details important issues that researchers using the local police data should be aware of, including the importance of defining an appropriate denominator, completeness, and biases affecting police records. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e1691bc82015459488d63f556eca34792023-08-05T01:00:01ZengWellcomeWellcome Open Research2398-502X2023-02-01820758Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]Anna Ferrante0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9479-7908Richard Thomas1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9833-1702Alison Teyhan2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4965-3139Andy Boyd3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8614-3728Mark Mumme4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7138-9282Rosie Cornish5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2874-7646Iain Brennan6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2131-1599John Macleod7Adrian Brown8Amy Dillon9Centre for Data Linkage, Curtin University, Perth, AustraliaUK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PS, UKALSPAC, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UKUK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PS, UKALSPAC, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UKALSPAC, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UKSchool of Criminology, Sociology and Policing, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UKALSPAC, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UKCentre for Data Linkage, Curtin University, Perth, AustraliaNIHR Biomedical Research Centre Bristol, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UKThis data note describes a new resource for crime-related research: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) linked to regional police records. The police data were provided by Avon & Somerset Police (A&SP), whose area of responsibility contains the ALSPAC recruitment area. In total, ALSPAC had permission to link to crime records for 12,662 of the ‘study children’ (now adults, who were born in the early 1990s). The linkage took place in two stages: Stage 1 involved the ALSPAC Data Linkage Team establishing the linkage using personal identifiers common to both the ALSPAC participant database and A&SP records using deterministic and probabilistic methods. Stage 2 involved A&SP extracting attribute data on the matched individuals, removing personal identifiers and securely sharing the de-identified records with ALSPAC. The police data extraction took place in July 2021, when the participants were in their late 20s/early 30s. This data note contains details on the resulting linked police records available. In brief, electronic police records were available from 2007 onwards. In total, 1757 participants (14%) linked to at least one police record for a charge, offence ‘taken into consideration’, caution, or another out of court disposal. Linked participants had a total of 6413 records relating to 6283 offences. Almost three quarters of the linked participants were male. The most common offence types were violence against the person (22% of records), drug offences (19%), theft (17%) and public order offences (11%). This data note also details important issues that researchers using the local police data should be aware of, including the importance of defining an appropriate denominator, completeness, and biases affecting police records.https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-47/v1ALSPAC birth cohort police data linkage crimeeng |
| spellingShingle | Anna Ferrante Richard Thomas Alison Teyhan Andy Boyd Mark Mumme Rosie Cornish Iain Brennan John Macleod Adrian Brown Amy Dillon Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] Wellcome Open Research ALSPAC birth cohort police data linkage crime eng |
| title | Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] |
| title_full | Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] |
| title_fullStr | Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] |
| title_short | Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] |
| title_sort | linkage of the avon longitudinal study of parents and children alspac to avon somerset police regional police records version 1 peer review 2 approved 1 approved with reservations |
| topic | ALSPAC birth cohort police data linkage crime eng |
| url | https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-47/v1 |
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