Family Instability in Childhood and Criminal Offending During the Transition Into Adulthood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stacey J Bosick (University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA, corresponding author), P Fomby (0000-0002-2033-8485, University of Michigan) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1483-1504 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764218787000 |
| PMID | 31798181 |
| OpenAlex | W2886921045 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 34 |
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. 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. However, divergent patterns of own family formation among men in early adulthood do not mediate this association
Criminal behavior · Criminology · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Early adulthood · Family disruption · Family income · Juvenile · Juvenile delinquency · Life course approach · Panel Study of Income Dynamics · Young adult · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology
Young Adult Disclosure to Parents
Socio-Political Determinants of Violence and Recidivism in North Macedonia
Parental Incarceration and Children’s Living Arrangements in the United States
The impact of negative school experiences on rates of youth delinquency
Occupational Attainment and Criminal Justice Contact
Outcomes of youth with foster care experiences based on permanency outcome – Adoption, aging out, long-term foster care, and reunification
The Demography of Families
Mediating the relationship between neighbourhood disorder in adolescence and early adult offending with cognitive impulsivity and moral neutralization
Childhood Family Instability and Young-Adult Union Experiences
Family structure, unstructured socializing, and delinquent behavior
Pathways to Drug Dealing in the Middle and Upper Classes
Crime in the making
Six Paths to Adulthood
The Growing Racial and Ethnic Divide in U.S. Marriage Patterns
Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency
Crime and Public Policy
A General Theory of Crime
Violence in the Transition to Adulthood
Family Instability and College Enrollment and Completion
Family structure and the transition to early parenthood
Ecological Instability and Children’s Classroom Behavior in Kindergarten
The Effects of Life Circumstances on Longitudinal Trajectories of Offending
Reconsidering the Broken Homes/Delinquency Relationship and Exploring Its Mediating Mechanism(s)
Does Marriage Reduce Crime? A Counterfactual Approach to Within‐individual Causal Effects
Crime in the Making
Criminal Careers in the Short-Term
Family Structure and the Risk of a Premarital Birth
Family Structure Transitions and Child Development
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives
Family Instability and Child Well-Being
Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals
Marital Disruption, Parent-Child Relationships, and Behavior Problems in Children
Families and Delinquency
Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects in Logit and Probit Models
Cohabitation, Relationship Quality, and Desistance From Crime
Family Instability and the Transition to Adulthood
Race/Ethnic Differences in Effects of Family Instability on Adolescents' Risk Behavior
Settling Down and Aging Out
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |