Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records.
Linkage of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to Avon & Somerset Police regional police records.
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10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18720.1
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2023
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本数据说明描述了犯罪相关研究的新资源：与地区警察记录相关的雅芳父母和儿童纵向研究（ALSPAC）。警方的数据是由雅芳和萨默塞特警察局提供的，该警察局的责任范围包括ALSPAC的招聘领域。ALSPAC总共获得了12，662名“研究儿童”（现在是成年人，出生于20世纪90年代初）的犯罪记录链接许可。链接分两个阶段进行：第一阶段涉及ALSPAC数据链接团队使用ALSPAC参与者数据库和A&SP记录共同的个人标识符，使用确定性和概率方法建立链接。第二阶段涉及A&SP提取匹配个人的属性数据，删除个人标识符，并与ALSPAC安全地共享去识别记录。警方的数据提取于2021年7月进行，当时参与者都是20多岁/30出头。本数据说明详细介绍了由此产生的链接警察记录。简而言之，从2007年起提供了电子警察记录。总共有1757名参与者（14%）与至少一个警察记录有关，包括指控，“采取预防措施”，警告或其他庭外处置。联网参与者共有6413项纪录，涉及6283项罪行。几乎四分之三的相关参与者是男性。最常见的犯罪类型是对人的暴力（占记录的22%），毒品犯罪（19%），盗窃（17%）和公共秩序犯罪（11%）。本数据说明还详细介绍了使用当地警方数据的研究人员应该意识到的重要问题，包括定义适当分母的重要性，完整性和影响警方记录的偏见。
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.