Social and Personal Costs and Rewards of Crime

Indices of Personal and Social Costs and Rewards: (subject-baseline, subject-follow-up, subject-release) Items with a rating scale that ask about the relative enjoyment received from conventional activities as well as the perceived impact of the consequences received as a result of participation in criminal activity (at subject baseline, subject follow-up, and the release interview). The release interview focuses on criminal activity both within the institution and in the subject's neighborhood. At subject baseline and subject follow-up only, the focus is on criminal activity in the subject's neighborhood and eight additional questions address the overall sense of excitement from doing a series of illegal acts such as vandalism, auto theft, fighting, robbery with a gun, stealing, and stabbing someone.