Marriage and Offending
Examining the Significance of Marriage among the Children of Immigrants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18997405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bianca E Bersani (0000-0001-6224-528X, University of Massachusetts Boston, corresponding author), Stephanie M Dipietro (0000-0002-8812-7406, University of Missouri–St. Louis) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 304-332 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tsq.12116 |
| OpenAlex | W2128718820 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 56 |
Although research shows that involvement in crime varies across immigrant generations, less is known about why this is so. Using 13 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data, we examine the influence of marriage—a key correlate of desistance from crime—to understand more fully patterns of offending across immigrant generations during the transition to adulthood. Results indicate a lower prevalence of offending among first-generation immigrants compared with their second-generation and third-plus-generation peers; however, among active offenders, rates of offending are similar across groups. Notably, marriage exerts a significantly stronger effect on offending for second-generation immigrants, suggesting that, while assimilation may be associated with more offending, it is also associated with a greater potency of marriage in promoting desistance from crime
Criminology · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Immigration · Longitudinal data · Political science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology
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Criminal Careers and Immigration
Getting the Facts Straight
Illuminating the Immigration–Crime Nexus
Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century
Immigration and Crime in Comparative Perspective
Perceptions of Immigrants as a Criminal Threat
An Empirical Examination of the In-Prison Behaviors of Foreign-Born Individuals
Longitudinal Associations among Child Support Debt, Employment, and Recidivism after Prison
Crime in the making
The ties that bind
Children of Immigration
Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
Alone Together
Immigration reduces crime
An Examination of First and Second Generation Immigrant Offending Trajectories
Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior
Hierarchical linear models
The Truly Disadvantaged
Where We Live Now
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research
Poisson-Based Regression Analysis of Aggregate Crime Rates
Immigrant America
Remaking the American Mainstream
Hispanics and the Future of America
Perceptions of Immigrant Criminality
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives
The social relations model for family data
Demographic Trends in the United States
Research on the Nature and Determinants of Marital Satisfaction
Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence
Comparing Patterns and Predictors of Immigrant Offending Among a Sample of Adjudicated Youth
Race, Local Life Circumstances, and Criminal Activity
Exploring the Connection between Immigration and Violent Crime Rates in U.S. Cities, 1980–2000
The New Second Generation
The Context of Marriage and Crime
Using the Correct Statistical Test for the Equality of Regression Coefficients
When the Ties That Bind Unwind
Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within‐individual Causal Effects
Parent—Child Conflicts, School Troubles, and Differences in Delinquency Across Immigration Generations
Criminal Careers in the Short-Term
Understanding Desistance from Crime
Studies of the New Immigration
Marriage Markets and the Paradox of Mexican American Nuptiality
Normative Beliefs about Marriage and Cohabitation
Crime, Race, and the Transition to Marriage
Marriage and Health in the Transition to Adulthood
Sampling Weights and Regression Analysis
Trajectories of Delinquency From Adolescence to Adulthood
Hispanic Families
Growing Up American
Hispanic Familism Reconsidered
The Fertility and Language Characteristics of Mexican-American and Non-Hispanic Husbands and Wives
The future of marriage and hispanics
Gender, Crime, and Desistance
Local Marriage Markets and the Marital Behavior of Black and White Women
| Citations per year | 1.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |