Crime and the Transition to Marriage
The Role of the Spouse’s Criminal Involvement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8401965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Torbjørn Skardhamar (0000-0002-5589-8570, Statistics Norway), Christian Weisæth Monsbakken (Statistics Norway), Torkild Hovde Lyngstad (0000-0001-7830-9305, Statistics Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-427 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azu011 |
| OpenAlex | W2328016057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 42 |
Influential perspectives in life course criminology maintain that marriage leads to desistance from crime, and the mechanisms are largely related to spousal social control. Whether and to what degree marriage represents a break from a criminal past might depend on the spouse’s criminal attitude. We study how changes in offending are related to marriage, and how the patterns vary by the wife’s criminal record. We use data from Norwegian administrative registers that cover the total population of all persons who married in Norway between 1997 and 2001 (N = 80,064). We use information on these persons’ criminal records in two five-year periods before and after marriage as well as information on their wives’ criminal records in the same period, to estimate the probability of offending across an 11-year period around the time of marriage. We do so in a way that takes premarital changes in criminal behaviour into account. We find that the desistance process tend to start up to several years before marriage, and that the decline is greater for those who marry a wife with a criminal record.
Criminal history · Criminal record · Criminology · Norwegian · Period (music) · Political science · Population · Sociology · Spouse · Wife · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Law · Psychology
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The Triple Bind of Narration
The Development of Romantic Partner Involvement and Tolerance of Deviance among Juvenile Offenders
Effect of Marriage and Spousal Criminality on Recidivism
Crime in the making
Generalized Additive Models
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A Life-Course View of the Development of Crime
Crime in the Making
The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime
Cohabitation in Norway
Nordic Register Data and Their Untapped Potential for Criminological Knowledge
Does Marriage Reduce Crime
Cleaning up their act
Parenthood and crime
Administrative registers – Unexplored reservoirs of Scientific Knowledge
The Context of Marriage and Crime
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Life‐course Transitions and Desistance From Crime
A Test of Life‐course Explanations for Stability and Change in Antisocial Behavior From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
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Work, Family and Criminal Desistance
Marriage and Delinquency
Unmarried Cohabitation and Parenthood in Britain and Europe
Overview Chapter 6
Understanding Desistance from Crime
Trajectories of Change in Criminal Offending
The Unfolding Story of the Second Demographic Transition
Life-table representations of family dynamics in Sweden, Hungary, and 14 other FFS countries
Panel Models in Sociological Research
Intermarriage and Homogamy
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Emotions and Crime over the Life Course
Gender, Crime, and Desistance
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |