Intergenerational continuity in incarceration:Evidence from a Dutch multi-generation cohort

Results from juvenile delinquency and offending research have demonstrated that parental criminality is a risk factor for intergenerational offending. This chapter examines the intergenerational transmission of incarceration by analyzing the oldest generations of Dutch families contained in the Five Generation Study of Risk in the Netherlands. Murray and colleagues re-examined longitudinal studies conducted in the UK, US, Sweden and the Netherlands to explore whether the effects of parental incarceration on offspring offending differed across jurisdictions with varying social and penal climate... Mehr ...