Sibling Study Research Notes: An Overview - Research Design and Guiding Principles

This document describes the Sibling Study research project. The Sibling Study incorporates both qualitative and quantitative data and represents a unique body of information about young people’s trajectories through adolescence. The Sibling Study research design was developed to provide for detailed quantitative comparisons of the trajectories of serious offenders with the trajectories of nonoffenders. These comparisons were always to be based upon data from a questionnaire which would
‘push the envelope’ in terms of both size and range.

• Click here to view the Sibling Study Research Notes: Young People and Criminality.