Replication Data for: “Youth-Police Relations in Multi-Ethnic Cities. A Study of Police Encounters and Attitudes Toward the Police in Germany and France”

The replication data includes all the scripts to generate the “German-French Police Relations Dataset” on which the book relies (denoted as “dataset”), as well as the scripts that produce all the tables and figures presented in the book (by chapters). The scripts were compiled in Stata (Version 13). The dataset was produced within the framework of the comparative German-French research project “Police and Adolescents in Multi-Ethnic Societies” (POLIS)” as part of the author’s PhD research project. The cross-sectional dataset includes detailed information on encounters with and perceptions of the police among young people in two French (Grenoble and Lyon) and two German (Mannheim and Cologne) cities. Moreover, the dataset includes information on socio-demographic and ethnic background of the respondents as well as their self-reported delinquency, family and peer relations, routine activities and neighborhood of residence. The dataset draws on two school survey datasets – one German and one French dataset – compiled by the POLIS research project team. This primary data is stored, among others, at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (https://csl.mpg.de). The school surveys were carried out between September 2011 and November 2012 in France and Germany, using the same study design. They took the form of a paper-and-pencil questionnaire during school time. The POLIS project resulted from a cooperation between the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg, Germany, and the Sciences Po Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes, France. Dietrich Oberwittler and Hans-Jörg Albrecht (Germany) as well as Sebastian Roché (France) were its principal investigators. For more information on the POLIS project visit the project website https://csl.mpg.de/en/research/projects/police-and-adolescents-in-multi-ethnic-societies-polis/.