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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
Time: 8:19 pm
Time: 8:19 pm
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1 results foundAuthor: Andersen, Lars Hojsgaard Title: The Impact of Paternal Incarceration on Boys' Delinquency: A New Method for Adjusting for Model-Driven Bias Summary: Existing research is likely to have underestimated the mediating role of confounders, such as abilities, for the association between the delinquency of fathers and sons. Measures of sons' delinquency are often dichotomous, indicating whether a son experiences incarceration, for example, and scholars of criminology often apply nonlinear probability models to analyze such outcomes. But in so doing, we show, scholars involuntarily make their estimates vulnerable to model-driven bias. In this paper, we introduce to scholars of criminology a recent advance in the modeling of nonlinear probability models, the "KHB method", which corrects for model-driven bias. We use data from the NLSY97 to illustrate that existing strategies for estimating the impact of paternal incarceration on son's delinquency when mediating factors are taken into account produce biased estimates, and we use high quality registry data from Denmark to show that this is true even in administrative data and across length of incarceration. We also present and discuss the relationship between delinquency and abilities among sons, by paternal incarceration experience and by country, thereby adding to the burgeoning research on uneven consequences of paternal incarceration for children. Details: Copenhagen: ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit, 2017. 33p. Source: Internet Resource: Study Paper No. 120: Accessed August 28, 2017 at: http://www.rockwoolfonden.dk/app/uploads/2017/06/STUDY-PAPER-120-the-impact-of-paternal-incarceration-WEB.pdf Year: 2017 Country: International URL: http://www.rockwoolfonden.dk/app/uploads/2017/06/STUDY-PAPER-120-the-impact-of-paternal-incarceration-WEB.pdf Shelf Number: 146905 Keywords: At-Risk YouthChildren of PrisonersFamilies of InmatesIntergenerational Transmission |