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Title: Marriage, Cohabitation, and Crime: Differentiating Associations by Partnership Stage
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Gottlieb, Aaron Sugie, Naomi |
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Marriage, Cohabitation, and Crime: Differentiating Associations by Partnership Stage Justice Quarterly 36,3 (2019): 503-531. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2018.1445275 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Crime; Marital Status; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A wealth of scholarship generally finds that marriage protects against crime, but there is less consistent evidence for cohabitation. In this article, we contribute to scholarship on marriage and put forward new evidence about cohabitation by examining marital and cohabiting partnerships as transitions with distinct stages of entry, stability, and dissolution. We use within-person change models with contemporary data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to analyze these stages for the full sample and separately for men and women. The findings show differential protective associations of marriage and cohabitation depending on the stage of the partnership. Both recently formed cohabiting partnerships and stable cohabiting partnerships are associated with reductions in the level of offending, although to a lesser degree than marital relationships. Cohabiting partnerships that are stable, in that they have lasted at least a year, are associated with larger decreases in offending, particularly among women. |
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Gottlieb, Aaron and Naomi Sugie. "Marriage, Cohabitation, and Crime: Differentiating Associations by Partnership Stage." Justice Quarterly 36,3 (2019): 503-531.
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