Journal article
Marriage and Offending: Examining the Significance of Marriage among the Children of Immigrants
Sociological quarterly, Vol.57(2), pp.304-332
03/01/2016
DOI: 10.1111/tsq.12116
Abstract
Although research shows that involvement in crime varies across immigrant generations, less is known about why this is so. Using 13 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data, we examine the influence of marriagea key correlate of desistance from crimeto understand more fully patterns of offending across immigrant generations during the transition to adulthood. Results indicate a lower prevalence of offending among first-generation immigrants compared with their second-generation and third-plus-generation peers; however, among active offenders, rates of offending are similar across groups. Notably, marriage exerts a significantly stronger effect on offending for second-generation immigrants, suggesting that, while assimilation may be associated with more offending, it is also associated with a greater potency of marriage in promoting desistance from crime.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Marriage and Offending: Examining the Significance of Marriage among the Children of Immigrants
- Creators
- Bianca E. Bersani - University of Massachusetts BostonStephanie M. DiPietro - University of Missouri–St. Louis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Sociological quarterly, Vol.57(2), pp.304-332
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1111/tsq.12116
- ISSN
- 0038-0253
- eISSN
- 1533-8525
- Number of pages
- 29
- Grant note
- 2011-IJ-CX-0002 / National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306241702771
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