Broken homes and crime:Differential effects of parental separation, parental decease, and being born to a single parent on the criminal involvement in offspring

This dissertation has contributed to the literature by looking at the effect of growing up in a single-parent family during childhood and adolescence on adolescents’ involvement in delinquency. More specifically, it investigated whether different types of single-parent families have different effects, and whether these effects depend on parental involvement in crime. These relationships were investigated by means of a systematic review based on empirical literature and three empirical studies based on Dutch population register data provided by Statistics Netherlands. This dissertation has show... Mehr ...