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Results for intergenerational crime
9 results foundAuthor: Hjalmarsson, Randi Title: Like Godfather, Like Son: Explaining the Intergenerational Nature of Crime Summary: This paper studies intergenerational correlations in crime between fathers and their children and the underlying mechanisms that give rise to these correlations. Details: College Park, MD: University of Maryland, School of Public Policy; Stockholm, Sweden: Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2009. 57p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2009 Country: Sweden URL: Shelf Number: 118225 Keywords: Family RelationshipsIntergenerational Crime |
Author: Hjalmarsson, Randi Title: The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data Summary: We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted sons born in Sweden, we have access to the criminal records of both the adopting and biological parents. This allows us to assess the relative importance of pre-birth factors (genes, prenatal environment and perinatal conditions) and post-birth factors for generating parent-son associations in crime. We find that pre-birth and post-birth factors are both important determinants of sons’ convictions and that mothers and fathers contribute equally through these two channels. We find little evidence of interaction effects between biological and adoptive parents’ criminal convictions. Having a more highly educated adoptive mother, however, does appear to mitigate the impact of biological parents’ criminality. Details: London: University of London, School of Economics and Finance; Stockholm, Stockholm University, 2011. 59p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 10, 2012 at: http://www.iza.org/conference_files/riskonomics2011/lindquist_m3664.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Sweden URL: http://www.iza.org/conference_files/riskonomics2011/lindquist_m3664.pdf Shelf Number: 123538 Keywords: Adoption (Sweden)Intergenerational Crime |
Author: Rud, Iryna Title: The Externalities of Crime: The Effect of Criminal Involvement of Parents on the Educational Attainment of Their Children Summary: The empirical literature on education and crime suggests that both criminal behavior and educational attainment are transferred from parents to children. However, the impact of criminal involvement of parents on educational outcomes of children tends to be ignored, even though the entailed social costs may be substantial. This study examines the effects of parents‟ criminal involvement on the educational attainment of their children. A multinomial probit model is applied in combination with a Mahalanobis matching approach to identify this effect. The findings suggest that having criminally involved parents: (1) increases the probability of only finishing primary education by 8 percentage points, and (2) decreases the probability of having a higher education degree by 13 percentage points. Details: Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2012. 29p. Source: Internet Resource: TIER Working Paper Series; Tier SP 12/10: Accessed January 30, 2013 at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/tir/wpaper/44.html Year: 2012 Country: Netherlands URL: http://ideas.repec.org/p/tir/wpaper/44.html Shelf Number: 127450 Keywords: Criminal BehaviorIntergenerational CrimeParental Influence |
Author: Bethencourt, Carlos Title: On the intergenerational nature of criminal behavior Summary: Empirical evidence suggests that family background and parental criminality are strong predictors of an individuals' criminal behavior. The aim of this paper is to account for this intergenerational nature of criminal behavior within a simple theoretical model. Drawing on the literature of cultural transmission, we model the dynamics of moral norms of good conduct (honest behavior). Individuals' criminal behavior and morality are strategic complementarities that reinforce each other. We establish the existence of multiple steady states and provide conditions on the socialization process under which both types - honest and dishonest - survive in the long run even though parents commit crime but at the same time agree that honesty is desirable. Our model provides a novel explanation of why crime is highly concentrated in specific areas and also why crime rates tend to be persistent over time. An empirical application reveals that our model can account for the differential reductions in property crime rates across US federal states since the 1980s. Details: Munich: Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2014. 32p. Source: Internet Resource: MPRA Paper No. 58344: Accessed December 8, 2014 at: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/58344/4/MPRA_paper_58344.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/58344/4/MPRA_paper_58344.pdf Shelf Number: 134279 Keywords: Intergenerational CrimeProperty Crimes |
Author: Gordon, Liz Title: Causes of and solutions to inter-generational crime: the final report of the study of the children of prisoners Summary: This report summarises and analyses the results of two years of research into prisoners and their families. The aim of this report is to outline our findings and also to put the research into current context. There continues to be unprecedented interest in our first year report, which has sparked many debates and has contributed to policy development in a number of ways. Particular issues that have led on from, or have been informed by, our work include: 1. Communications options to increase contact between prisoners and their families and reduce costs; 2. Policies and practices around visiting, especially in Canterbury; 3. Debates around the causes of intergenerational recidivism; 4. Health factors that lead to and exacerbate sentences of imprisonment; 5. Social work practices to improve outcomes for the children of prisoners; 6. Education factors, especially improving the context of education for children who are in danger of disengaging; and 7. Engagement on a range of policy issues including health-promoting prisons, sentence length, the role of families in prisons, prisoner health and treatment options and welfare reform. Details: Christchurch, NZ: PILLARS, 2011. 49p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 14, 2016 at: http://www.pillars.org.nz/images/stories/2nd-research-report.pdf Year: 2011 Country: New Zealand URL: http://www.pillars.org.nz/images/stories/2nd-research-report.pdf Shelf Number: 138670 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (New Zealand) Families of Prisoners Intergenerational Crime |
Author: Farmer, Michael (Lord Farmer) Title: The Importance of Strengthening Prisoners' Family Ties to Prevention Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime Summary: The Secretary of State commissioned this Review to investigate how supporting men in prison in England and Wales to engage with their families, can reduce reoffending and assist in addressing the intergenerational transmission of crime (a landmark study found that 63% of prisoners' sons went on to offend themselves ) as part of the Government's urgently-needed reform agenda. The Ministry of Justice's own research shows that, for a prisoner who receives visits from a partner or family member, the odds of reoffending are 39% lower than for prisoners who had not received such visits. Supportive relationships with family members and significant others give meaning and all important motivation to other strands of rehabilitation and resettlement activity. As one prisoner told me, 'If I don't see my family I will lose them, if I lose them what have I got left?' Yet the unacceptable inconsistency of work that helps prisoners to maintain and strengthen these relationships across the estate shows it is not yet mainstream in offender management in the same way as employment and education. Family work should always be seen and referred to alongside these two rehabilitation activities as the third leg of the stool that brings stability and structure to prisoners' lives, particularly when they leave prison. That is why the overarching conclusion of my Review is that good family relationships are indispensable for delivering the Government's far-reaching plans across all the areas outlined in their white paper on Prison Safety and Reform, published in November 2016. If prisons are truly to be places of reform, we cannot ignore the reality that a supportive relationship with at least one person is indispensable to a prisoner's ability to get through their sentence well and achieve rehabilitation. It is not only family members who can provide these and, wherever family relationships are mentioned, it should be assumed that other significant and supportive relationships are also inferred. Consistently good family work, which brings men face-to-face with their enduring responsibilities to the family left in the community, is indispensable to the rehabilitation culture we urgently need to develop in our penal system and has to be integral to the changes sought. It helps them forge a new identity for themselves, an important precursor to desistance from crime, based on being a good role model to their children, a caring husband, partner and friend and a reliable provider through legal employment. However, responsibilities are not discharged in a vacuum. Families need to be willing and able to engage with the rehabilitation process, so harnessing the resource of good family relationships must be a golden thread running through the processes of all prisons, as well as in the implementation of all themes of the white paper. Details: London: Ministry of Justice, 2017. 112p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 23, 2017 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/636619/farmer-review-report.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/636619/farmer-review-report.pdf Shelf Number: 146878 Keywords: Children of PrisonersFamilies of InmatesIntergenerational CrimePrison VisitsPrisoner RehabilitationRecidivismReoffendingVisitation |
Author: Dobbie, Will Title: The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration Summary: We estimate the causal effect of parental incarceration on children's medium-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in parental incarceration from the random assignment of criminal defendants to judges with different incarceration tendencies. We find that the incarceration of a parent in childhood leads to significant increases in teen crime and pregnancy and a significant decrease in early-life employment. The effects are concentrated among children from the most disadvantaged families, where teen crime increases by 18 percentage points, teen pregnancy increases by 8 percentage points, and employment at age 20 decreases by 28 percentage points. In contrast, there are no detectable effects among children from more advantaged families. These results imply that the incarceration of parents with young children may increase the intergenerational persistence of poverty and criminal behavior, even in affluent countries with extensive social safety nets. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper 24186: Accessed January 17, 2018 at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24186 Year: 2018 Country: Sweden URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24186 Shelf Number: 148844 Keywords: Children of Prisoners Families of Inmates Intergenerational CrimePrisoners |
Author: Bhuller, Manudeep Title: Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration Summary: An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of judges who differ in their propensity to send defendants to prison. Using longitudinal data for Norway, we find that imprisonment has no effect on fathers' recidivism but reduces their employment by 20 percentage points. We find no evidence that paternal incarceration affects a child's criminal activity or school performance. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper No. 24227: Accessed January 22, 2018 at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24227 Year: 2018 Country: Norway URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24227 Shelf Number: 148903 Keywords: children of PrisonersEmploymentIntergenerational Crime |
Author: Bhuller, Manudeep Title: Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks Summary: Using quasi-random assignment of criminal cases to judges, we estimate large incarceration spillovers in criminal and brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions in the probability his criminal network members and younger brothers will be charged with a crime, respectively, over the ensuing four years. Correlational evidence misleadingly finds small positive effects. These spillovers are of first order importance for policy, as the network reductions in future crimes committed are larger than the direct effect on the incarcerated defendant. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018. 29p. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper 24878: Accessed August 6, 2018 at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24878.pdf Year: 2018 Country: United States URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24878.pdf Shelf Number: 151021 Keywords: Crime FamiliesIntergenerational CrimeInternational Crime |