Journal article
Examining the Salience of Marriage to Offending for Black and Hispanic Men
Justice quarterly, Vol.33(3), pp.510-537
04/15/2016
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2014.932000
Abstract
Despite a considerable body of research demonstrating the beneficial effects of marriage for criminal desistance, data limitations have resulted in much of this work being based on predominantly white, male samples. In light of the rapidly changing demographic landscape of the US-and particularly the tremendous growth in the Hispanic population-the question of whether the benefits of marriage are generalizable to racial and ethnic minorities is an important one. This research extends prior work on the relationship between marriage and offending by assessing whether the benefits of marriage for criminal offending extend to today's racial and ethnic minority populations. Using a contemporary sample of 3,560 young adult Hispanic, black and white males followed annually for 13 years spanning the transition to adulthood, we find that while marriage is a potent predictor of desistance for all groups, the benefits of marriage vary substantially across both race and ethnicity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Examining the Salience of Marriage to Offending for Black and Hispanic Men
- Creators
- Bianca E. Bersani - Univ Massachusetts, Dept Sociol, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125 USAStephanie M. DiPietro - Univ Missouri, Dept Criminol & Criminal Justice, St Louis, MO 63121 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Justice quarterly, Vol.33(3), pp.510-537
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1080/07418825.2014.932000
- ISSN
- 0741-8825
- eISSN
- 1745-9109
- Number of pages
- 28
- Grant note
- 2011-IJ-CX-0002 / National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice 1229038 / Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences; National Science Foundation (NSF); NSF - Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/15/2016
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306248602771
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