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	Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations	Self-Report Delinquency Scale
Field	Criminology	Criminology
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2008	1980
Originator	Terance Miethe, Timothy Hart & Wendy Regoeczi	Delbert S. Elliott & Suzanne S. Ageton
Type	Exploratory case-based multivariate analysis of categorical crime data	Self-report behavioral measurement instrument
Seminal source	Miethe, T. D., Hart, T. C., & Regoeczi, W. C. (2008). The conjunctive analysis of case configurations: An exploratory method for discrete multivariate analyses of crime data. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 24(2), 227–241.	Elliott, D. S., & Ageton, S. S. (1980). Reconciling race and class differences in self-reported and official estimates of delinquency. American Sociological Review, 45(1), 95–110.
Aliases	CACC, Conjunctive Analysis, Case Configuration Analysis	SRD Scale, Self-Reported Delinquency Measure, Self-Report Offending Inventory, National Youth Survey Delinquency Scale
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Summary	Conjunctive analysis of case configurations (CACC) is an exploratory, case-based method for analyzing categorical crime data. Introduced by Miethe, Hart, and Regoeczi in 2008, it builds a matrix of all observed combinations of categorical attributes — the distinct case 'profiles' — and tabulates how often each occurs and what its outcome rate is, revealing how attributes act in combination rather than as isolated net effects.	A self-report delinquency (SRD) scale measures offending by asking respondents directly how often they have committed specific delinquent or criminal acts, rather than relying on arrests or convictions. The modern frequency-based approach was established by Delbert Elliott and Suzanne Ageton in 1980 for the National Youth Survey, designed to capture the full range and frequency of offending and to overcome the biases of official crime records.