Parental incarceration and offspring criminality: A Finnish total population study with sibling comparison

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102275

Ilona Nissinen , Antti Latvala , Karoliina Suonpää , Mikko Aaltonen , Pekka Martikainen

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Abstract

Purpose

While parental incarceration (PI) is consistently associated with offspring offending, less is known about possible heterogeneity in the association. We examined associations between PI and offspring crime considering possible moderating factors related to parent's criminality and sociodemographic background.

Methods

Using Finnish total population data of children born in 1987–2003 (N = 1,017,072), we conducted Cox regression models for PI by age 18 and offspring's crime up to age 33. We compared full siblings to further test whether differences in the age and total length of exposure to PI were differentially associated with offending while accounting for unmeasured familial heterogeneity.

Results

Both paternal and maternal incarceration were associated with an elevated risk of offspring criminality, but there was significant heterogeneity in the associations. The associations were weaker among offspring of parents with more criminal history and stronger among offspring with longer co-residence with the parent. The associations were typically stronger for maternal as compared to paternal incarceration, and among girls compared to boys. No clear evidence for differential risks related to the age or total length of exposure to PI was found in the sibling analyses.

Conclusions

PI is differently associated with offspring crime depending on the parent's criminal and sociodemographic background.

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父母被监禁与后代的犯罪率：芬兰总人口研究与同胞比较

目的虽然父母入狱（PI）与后代犯罪一直存在关联，但人们对这种关联中可能存在的异质性知之甚少。方法利用芬兰 1987-2003 年出生儿童的总人口数据（N = 1,017,072），我们对 18 岁之前的父母入狱时间和 33 岁之前的子女犯罪情况进行了 Cox 回归模型。我们比较了同胞兄弟姐妹，以进一步检验暴露于 PI 的年龄和总时长的差异是否与犯罪有不同的关联，同时考虑未测量的家族异质性。犯罪史较多的父母的后代的相关性较弱，与父母共同居住时间较长的后代的相关性较强。与父辈相比，母辈入狱与子辈入狱之间的关联通常更强；与子辈相比，女孩入狱与男孩入狱之间的关联通常更强。在兄弟姐妹的分析中，没有发现明确的证据表明与接触个人信息的年龄或总时间长短有关的不同风险。

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Journal of Criminal Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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6.90

自引率

9.10%

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审稿时长

23 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Criminal Justice is an international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area. The Journal is concerned with all aspects of the criminal justice system in terms of their relationships to each other. Although materials are presented relating to crime and the individual elements of the criminal justice system, the emphasis of the Journal is to tie together the functioning of these elements and to illustrate the effects of their interactions. Articles that reflect the application of new disciplines or analytical methodologies to the problems of criminal justice are of special interest. Since the purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of new ideas, new information, and the application of new methods to the problems and functions of the criminal justice system, the Journal emphasizes innovation and creative thought of the highest quality.