2012 Invitational Forum Resources

The NCFMR has developed an extensive set of data resources to facilitate research on families and well-being. Our incarceration resources provide original analyses of national data sets summarizing a share of the U.S. population's experiences with incarceration. These analyses offer a richer, more nuanced portrait of the sociodemographic characteristics of the growing share of the overall population that has spent time in jail or prison. Additionally, we published a report on incarceration from the 2012 Measuring Incarceration in Household Surveys invitation forum.

Report

• Experiences with the Criminal Justice System in a Household Survey: Introducing the Survey of Criminal Justice Experience (SCJE)
   

Family Profiles
An original report summarizing longitudinal data from the National Survey of Youth 1997 on the cumulative incarceration experiences of young adults in the United States.

• On the Road to Adulthood: Young Men’s Contact with Criminal Justice System

Comparative Analysis of Incarceration Levels and Measurement
Comparing three data sources (Add Health, NLSY97, NSFG), this summary table showcases the incarceration experiences of men and women by age 25.

• Incarceration by Age 25 in Household Surveys
   

Measures Snapshots

Detailed summaries on a selection of national data sets used to capture individual's experiences with law enforcement and incarceration utilizing multiple measures, including criminal record (i.e., arrested, convicted, and/or sentenced), frequencies of occurrences, types of crimes committed, and dates of occurrence.

• American Community Survey (ACS)

• The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

• National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)

• National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

• National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)

• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

• Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

• Transition into Adulthood Study (TA)
  A Panel Study of Income Dynamics Supplement

• United States Decennial Census