| The paper presents the key findings of a project that aims at evaluating the practices of sanctioning in a sample of multiple registered persons. it is sought to analyse the development of sanctions in such "registration careers". The longitudinal data of the Freiburg Birth Cohort Study gives the rare possibility of describing ad analysing the course of sanctions on an inter- as well as intra-individual basis. Linking the data of the police and the courts allows a nearly complete description of a person's official career. in addition to the comprehensiveness of a single person's set of formal as well as informal sanctions the mentioned sources provide enough cases for a thorough quantitative analysis. It is possible, therefore, to address questions like that of an escalation of sanctions or the dependence of the course of sanctions on different variables like type of first sanction, socio-demographic characteristics, damage caused etc. in such an official career. Because of the long period covered by the project it will be feasible to state and compare the development of sanctioning in juvenile as well as adult offenders. Furthermore, variations following the transition from the juvenile to the adult system of sanctioning can be described. |
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