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1.	Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth DiPietro, Stephanie
1.	An Examination of the ‘Marriage Effect’ on Desistance from Crime among U.S. Immigrants Final Report, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, March 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Keyword(s): Crime; Immigrants; Marital Dissolution; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The findings show similarities and differences between immigrant generations regarding marriage patterns and offending. There were two key findings. First, counter to expectations of a decline in the marriage rate for the second generation of immigrants, the study found that second-generation immigrants marry at rates comparable to their White, Hispanic, and first-generation immigrant peers. Second, consistent with previous research, the study found that marriage is negatively related to crime for both first- and second-generation immigrants; however, this “marriage effect” is particularly strong for the second generation of immigrant families. Thus, consistent with previous criminological research on the marriage effect among the native-born, the results of this study show that being married fosters desistance from crime for both first-generation and second-generation immigrants. This suggests that efforts to preserve and promote family connections among immigrants and within immigrant communities should be at the forefront of immigration policy reform. Policies that result in deportation and the dissolution of immigrant families may fuel crime rates among second-generation immigrant children. The study used 13 waves of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), which is a representative survey of people living in the United States who were 12 to 16 years old during the initial round of data collection in 1997. Youth complete a self-administered questionnaire that collects information on sensitive topics such as crime/delinquency, arrest, and substance use. The dataset also includes information on family dynamics, structural factors, and individual characteristics. Of the youth surveyed in the first wave, there were 590 first-generation immigrants and 998 second-generation immigrants.
	Bibliography Citation Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth and Stephanie DiPietro. "An Examination of the ‘Marriage Effect’ on Desistance from Crime among U.S. Immigrants." Final Report, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, March 2013.

2.	Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth DiPietro, Stephanie
2.	Divergence in the "Good Marriage Effect": Findings and Processes of an NIJ W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Presented: Atlanta GA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Crime; Immigrants; Life Course; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The aim of this presentation is to provide practical guidance on the application process, to share our experiences as Du Bois Fellows and to summarize the findings of our research, which synthesizes life course and immigration literature to examine whether and to what extent immigration status conditions the relationship between marriage and offending. While criminological interest in the impact of salient life events on offending over the life course has garnered much empirical attention over the last few decades, this work has evolved with limited recognition of potential cultural contingencies. Specifically, despite growing evidence that marriage holds the potential to alter offending trajectories, both theoretical development and empirical analysis have been largely andro- and ethnocentric in their portrayal of marriage effects. We examine the marriage-crime nexus among immigrants, paying attention to important generational, nativity, and migration factors that may complicate this relationship. To study these questions, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and apply hierarchical linear modeling to examine within-individual longitudinal patterns of offending among immigrants and non-immigrants. While our results lend credence to the universally beneficial effect of being married, we find notable points of divergence when immigrant generation and gender intersect.
	Bibliography Citation Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth and Stephanie DiPietro. "Divergence in the "Good Marriage Effect": Findings and Processes of an NIJ W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship." Presented: Atlanta GA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2013.

3.	Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth DiPietro, Stephanie
3.	Examining the Salience of Marriage to Offending for Black and Hispanic Men Justice Quarterly 33,3 (April 2016): 510-537. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2014.932000 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Keyword(s): Crime; Ethnic Differences; Marriage; Minorities; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Despite a considerable body of research demonstrating the beneficial effects of marriage for criminal desistance, data limitations have resulted in much of this work being based on predominantly white, male samples. In light of the rapidly changing demographic landscape of the US—and particularly the tremendous growth in the Hispanic population—the question of whether the benefits of marriage are generalizable to racial and ethnic minorities is an important one. This research extends prior work on the relationship between marriage and offending by assessing whether the benefits of marriage for criminal offending extend to today’s racial and ethnic minority populations. Using a contemporary sample of 3,560 young adult Hispanic, black and white males followed annually for 13 years spanning the transition to adulthood, we find that while marriage is a potent predictor of desistance for all groups, the benefits of marriage vary substantially across both race and ethnicity.
	Bibliography Citation Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth and Stephanie DiPietro. "Examining the Salience of Marriage to Offending for Black and Hispanic Men." Justice Quarterly 33,3 (April 2016): 510-537.

4.	Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth DiPietro, Stephanie
4.	Marriage and Offending: Examining the Significance of Marriage among the Children of Immigrants The Sociology Quarterly 57,2 (Spring 2016): 304-332. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tsq.12116/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Crime; Immigrants; Marriage; Transition, Adulthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although research shows that involvement in crime varies across immigrant generations, less is known about why this is so. Using 13 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data, we examine the influence of marriage—a key correlate of desistance from crime—to understand more fully patterns of offending across immigrant generations during the transition to adulthood. Results indicate a lower prevalence of offending among first-generation immigrants compared with their second-generation and third-plus-generation peers; however, among active offenders, rates of offending are similar across groups. Notably, marriage exerts a significantly stronger effect on offending for second-generation immigrants, suggesting that, while assimilation may be associated with more offending, it is also associated with a greater potency of marriage in promoting desistance from crime.
	Bibliography Citation Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth and Stephanie DiPietro. "Marriage and Offending: Examining the Significance of Marriage among the Children of Immigrants." The Sociology Quarterly 57,2 (Spring 2016): 304-332.

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