A systematic review and meta-analysis of the intergenerational transmission of criminal behavior

Besemer, Sytske; Ahmad, Shaikh I.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Farrington, David P.

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2017.10.004

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“…Besides the influence of criminal members in their social network, no individual risk-factors were present in this high-risk constellation. This suggests that this constellation reflects social learning mechanisms that are well known from the criminological literature, particularly from research into the intergenerational transference of criminal behavior (Farrington 2002) and to a lesser extent also of violent crime (Besemer et al 2017;Eichelsheim and van de Weijer 2018). From a clinical perspective this is a particularly tough target group because diversion by influencing social networks of marginalized delinquents is notoriously difficult.…”

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Constellations of youth criminogenic factors associated with young adult violent criminal behavior

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This study identified constellations of childhood risk factors associated with violent criminal behavior in early adulthood. Police data were used to sample violent and nonviolent offenders from a population of young adult males with a history of juvenile probation. Risk factors were retrieved from their juvenile probation files. A single classification tree analysis organized these into a decision tree for violent criminal behavior with good predictive accuracy. Two constellations of risk factors were associated with a high risk of violent criminal behavior. The first consisted of juvenile delinquents who had been moderately involved with criminal peers, who had committed offenses under the influence of drugs, and who came from a dysfunctional family. The second was characterized by having been severely involved with criminal peers and having had criminal family members. Presenting with depressive symptoms in childhood was associated with a low risk of violent criminal behavior. These constellations bear clinical importance as they provide targets for personalized interventions.

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“…This finding is also important, because from the literature it follows that children with a convicted mother run a higher risk of being convicted than those with only fathers with criminal records. If both parents have criminal records, the risk of intergenerational transmission increases even more (Besemer et al 2017). Criminal families can therefore be considered an important object of research.…”

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“…In the Netherlands, 25% of children whose parents lived on social benefits were also dependent on such benefits (CBS, 2015). However, this still leaves a relatively large group living in a persistent situation of financial deprivation, which is in itself an important risk factor for criminal behaviour (see also Besemer et al 2017). Finally, a family's bad reputation can be a risk factor.…”

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“…Almost without exception, outcomes reveal that children of parents who have been convicted run a higher risk of ending up with criminal records themselves. A meta-analysis by Besemer et al (2017), which compares 23 datasets including 3.5 million children, shows that children with one or more convicted parents have a 2.4 times higher risk of being convicted themselves. We know that within serious and organised crime networks, families play an important role, for instance because family ties provide trust relations (van de Bunt et al 2014).…”

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Intergenerational transmission and organised crime. A study of seven families in the south of the Netherlands

Spapens

Moors²

2019

Trends Organ Crim

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Kinship ties play an important role in organised crime, but little attention has been paid as yet to criminal families and intergenerational transmission of delinquent behaviour as well as criminal 'leadership.' This paper presents the results of an in-depth study of seven families in the south of the Netherlands that produced a leader of a criminal group in at least one generation. In almost every generation, most male and female members of these families have criminal records, but intergenerational transmission of criminal leadership has so far occurred in only two families. There is a range of risk factors that promote criminal behaviour across generations, but an important explanation is that family members select their partners and friends from their own closed and deviant subcultures, and seem to favour those who have already developed criminal track records. Apart from risk factors at the individual, family and social environment levels, criminal behaviour was also stimulated by the seven families quickly taking advantage of emerging crime markets, particularly ecstasy production and indoor cannabis cultivation from the 1990s onwards.

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“…Our electronic search strategy identified 2,166 studies, 1,275 of which were unique. Four additional studies were found by manually searching the bibliographies of prior systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses on the impact of parental offending or incarceration on offspring outcomes (Austin, 2016;Besemer, Ahmad, Hinshaw, & Farrington, 2017;Murray & Farrington, 2008;Murray et al, 2012). The titles, abstracts, and tables of 1,279 studies were reviewed separately by two of the authors (TW and MB) according to the eligibility criteria described; 1,237 articles were deemed ineligible.…”

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Parental Offending and Child Physical Health, Mental Health, and Drug Use Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review

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Objectives: A growing body of evidence suggests that parental offending may be linked to poor physical health, mental health, and drug use problems in offspring. However, previous systematic reviews have limited their scope to the association between parental incarceration and child substance use and mental health problems. We extend this research by conducting a systematic literature review on the impact of any parental offending, more broadly, on child physical and mental health outcomes, including drug use problems. Methods: We searched relevant electronic databases and the reference lists of previous reviews for research examining the relationship between parental offending, excluding studies focused on incarceration alone, and health outcomes in offspring less than 18 years of age. Our search identified 1,279 unique studies, 19 of which met the criteria for inclusion. Results: Across this literature, associations were found between parental offending and poor physical health outcomes in young children and, more robustly, drug use in adolescence. The associations between parental offending and child health outcomes, particularly for child mental health, were found to be at least partially explained by other factors, such as child maltreatment and abuse. However, owing to methodological limitations, conclusions regarding the causal impact of parental offending on child health could not be confidently made. Conclusion: Parental offending may be useful marker for identifying children at risk of poor health outcomes who may benefit from intervention.

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the intergenerational transmission of criminal behavior

Cited by 124 publications

References 121 publications

Constellations of youth criminogenic factors associated with young adult violent criminal behavior

Constellations of youth criminogenic factors associated with young adult violent criminal behavior

Intergenerational transmission and organised crime. A study of seven families in the south of the Netherlands

Parental Offending and Child Physical Health, Mental Health, and Drug Use Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review

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