ABSTRACT
The relationship between a parent and a child is without any doubt one of the most influential and intimate relationships over the life course of an individual. Children resemble their parents in a variety of life outcomes such as socioeconomic status, family formation characteristics, and political views. There is growing evidence that some families – despite interventions by child protection services, judicial sanctions, and social mobility – are stuck in patterns of criminal behaviour, poverty, substance abuse, teenage parenthood, and other negative life events. This is a growing global problem for which currently no solution is available.
This book brings together the most important and unique findings of intergenerational studies of criminal behaviour from around the world, and from a variety of disciplines, from criminology to sociology to anthropology. Each chapter explores the historical background of a specific study, its most important objectives, and the unique conclusions and implications that can be drawn from the data.
Essential reading for all those interested in criminal behaviour, psychological criminology, and intergenerational psychology, this book provides an extensive overview of intergenerational studies on patterns of continuity and discontinuity of criminal, antisocial, or delinquent behaviour, as well as related behaviours or risk factors such as the intergenerational continuities in (harsh) parenting and family relationship quality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |10 pages
Introduction
chapter |8 pages
Crime over the course of generations: Interdependent lives and risks
part I|47 pages
Studies using general population register data
chapter 1|15 pages
Using register-linkage data to study intergenerational continuity of criminal offending
chapter 2|16 pages
Danish register data
chapter 3|14 pages
Studying the intergenerational transmission of crime with population data
part II|54 pages
Studies using register data
chapter 5|20 pages
Intergenerational transmission of antisocial behaviour in childhood
part III|180 pages
Studies using survey data
chapter 8|25 pages
The Oregon Youth Study – Three Generational Study
chapter 12|25 pages
First results of cross-generational (dis-)similarities between three CrimoC-generations
chapter 13|16 pages
The Cambridge–Somerville Youth Study and intergenerational transmission of criminal offending
part IV|36 pages
Studies using mixed methods or qualitative data
chapter 15|16 pages
The Ohio Life Course Study
chapter 16|18 pages
Qualitative research on the intergenerational transmission of antisocial behaviour in conflict-affected contexts
part |6 pages
Discussion