Same-Sex Relationships and Criminal Behavior
A Total Population Study in The Netherlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8355758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve Van De Weijer (0000-0001-5914-5966, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement), Sjoukje Van Deuren (0000-0003-2077-3687, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, corresponding author), Brian B Boutwell (0000-0003-1649-5311, University of Mississippi Medical Center) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 2923-2938 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archives of Sexual Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0002 • E-ISSN: 1573-2800 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10508-024-02902-9 |
| PMID | 38907079 |
| OpenAlex | W4399882734 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 57 |
Sexual minority groups experience elevated risk across a range of adverse outcomes. Previous studies from the USA showed that these risks include contact with the criminal justice system for sexual minority females but not for males. This study examined whether this relationship between sexual minority status and criminal behavior was also found in a more secular country like the Netherlands with more progressive attitudes toward sexual minorities. Furthermore, the study aimed to examine whether this relationship applied to various types of crime and could be explained by unmeasured familial factors. Longitudinal data from the Dutch national population, including 75,362 individuals in a same-sex relationship and 3,464,906 individuals in opposite-sex relationships, were used to compare the risk of crime among males and females in same-sex and opposite-sex unions. Discordant sibling models were included to increase control over possible sources of confounding from shared familial factors. Analyses were repeated for six types of crime, including property offenses, violence, vandalism, and public order offenses, traffic offenses, drugs offenses, and other offenses. The results showed that the direction of the associations between same-sex relationships and offending differed for men and women. In general, men in same-sex relationships were less likely to be a suspect of crime compared to those in opposite-sex relationships [odds ratio (OR) = 0.685; p p
Criminal behavior · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Population · Public health · Sexual behavior · Sociology · Demography · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
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| Highly cited | No |