ArticleThe American behavioral scientist2018
Family Instability in Childhood and Criminal Offending during the Transition into Adulthood.
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- Longitudinal associations between early risk and adolescent delinquency: Mediators, moderators, and main effects.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Parent-child separation and intergenerational transmission of substance use and disorder: Testing across three generations.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Impact of social factors responsible for Juvenile delinquency - A literature review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Review
- Childhood Family Instability and Young-Adult Union Experiences: Black-White Differences in Outcomes and Effects.Demography · 2023Article
- Heterogeneity in effects of parent-child separation on young-adult substance use disorder.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Article
- The nexus of family environment with youth street criminal behavior in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.Heliyon · 2021Article
- The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
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Abstract
The structure and stability of families have long stood as key predictors of juvenile delinquency. Boys from "broken homes" experience a higher prevalence of juvenile delinquency than those from intact families (Rebellon 2002, Wells and Rankin 1991). Unresolved is whether the consequences of frequently disrupted family contexts endure to shape criminal trajectories into adulthood. Long-term influence may also be indirect. Life course criminologists credit family formation during the transition to adulthood, and particularly marriage, for redirecting men's criminal trajectories, but children who experience repeated changes in family structure are more likely to experience precarious starts to their own eventual family formation. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and its two child-centered supplemental studies (N=1,127), we find that the experience of repeated family structure change is associated with higher rates of arrest and incarceration during early adulthood for white men but not for black men. This association is partially mediated by a slower transition to marriage among men who experienced three or more changes in family structure during childhood.
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