ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to verify the intergenerational transmission of offending across multiple countries-England, the Netherlands, and the United States-by investigating it in a consistent manner. It expands upon prior research to examine how different aspects of the criminal career may condition the intergenerational transmission of crime. The intergenerational transmission of antisocial and criminal behavior has been the topic of scientific research for a long time. This research uses three intergenerational data sets from different countries to empirically explore the link between a parent's and child's criminal behavior, namely: the Transfive data from the Netherlands, the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) from England, and the Rochester Intergenerational Study (RIGS) from the United States. The chapter examines the intergenerational transmission of offending across two different periods of the child's life course-adolescence and young adulthood-to further explicate how the timing and frequency of parental offending may affect the timing and frequency of the child's offending as well.
