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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
Time: 11:30 am
Time: 11:30 am
Results for longitudinal studies (sweden)
1 results foundAuthor: Estrada, Felipe Title: Criminality and Life-Chances: A longitudinal study of crime, childhood circumstances and living conditions up to age 48 Summary: In this report, we direct our focus at the longer term consequences of involvement in crime. What does the future look like for those boys and girls who have been registered for crimes during their teenage years? We look at different groups defined on the basis of their level of involvement in crime during the life-course. We employ a new and rich longitudinal data set, The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC), which allows us to follow a cohort born in Stockholm in 1953 until they reach 48 years of age. One central finding is that the individuals who committed offences both as youths and as adults both came from markedly worse childhood conditions and had a significantly worse welfare situation in middle age. This is particularly true of the group of females who committed offences both as youths and as adults, who constitute a highly selected group, with experience of substantial childhood disadvantage. As adults, the majority of these women can be described as being in a state of social exclusion. A large proportion of them have no employment and have difficulty supporting themselves. Even though these things are also true of many of the men who persisted in offending into adulthood, it is important to note that in middle age, the majority of these men have some level of labour market attachment. For the vast majority of those who have committed offences life has turned out well. When we look at the cohort members’ family situation and labour market attachment, the differences between the youths who desisted from crime in their teenage years and those with no registered offending are quite small. The study illustrates both the negative long-term consequences of inequalities in childhood conditions, involvement in crime and the inability of society to resolve these problems. We also show that the youths who were unable to desist from crime when they became adults had themselves as children been looking forward to a very different future. An overwhelming majority of the cohort, irrespective of their degree of involvement in crime, had a similar view of what a good life would involve as an adult. The lives they then led as adults were apparently very different however. Details: Stockholm: Department of Criminology, Stockholm University, 2009. Source: Internet Resource: Department of Criminology Report Series, Report 2009:3: Accessed August 19, 2013 at: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:282982/FULLTEXT01 Year: 2009 Country: Sweden URL: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:282982/FULLTEXT01 Shelf Number: 129639 Keywords: Female OffendersLife CourseLongitudinal Studies (Sweden)Stockholm Birth Cohort Study |