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Author: Jacobsen, Wade C.
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth
Jacobsen, Wade C.
Doherty, Elaine Eggleston
Does Early Adolescent Arrest Alter the Developmental Course of Offending into Young Adulthood?
Journal of Youth and Adolescence published online (5 February 2022): DOI: 10.1007/s10964-022-01576-7.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-022-01576-7
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Arrests; Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Transition, Adulthood

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Adolescent involvement in risky behavior is ubiquitous and normative. Equally pervasive is the rapid decline in risky behavior during the transition to adulthood. Yet, for many, risky behavior results in arrest. Whereas prior research finds that arrest is associated with an increased risk of experiencing a host of detrimental outcomes, less understood is the impact of an arrest on the developmental course of offending compared to what it would have looked like if no arrest had occurred--the counterfactual. This study examines the developmental implications of an arrest early in the life course. The sample (N = 1293) was 37% female, 42% non-white, with a mean age of 13.00 years (SD = 0.82, range = 12–14) at baseline and followed annually for 15 years. Analyses combine propensity score matching and multilevel modeling techniques to estimate the impact of early arrest (i.e., 14 or younger) on the development of offending from adolescence into adulthood. The results indicate that early arrest alters the developmental course of offending in two primary ways. First, early arrest heightens involvement, frequency, and severity of offending throughout adolescence and into early young adulthood even after controlling for subsequent arrests. The detrimental influence of early arrest on the developmental course of offending is found regardless of gender or race/ethnicity. Second, even among youth with an early arrest, offending wanes over time with self-reported offending among all youth nearly absent by the mid- to late-twenties. The findings advance understanding of the developmental implications of early arrest beyond typical and expected offending.
Bibliography Citation
Bersani, Bianca Elizabeth, Wade C. Jacobsen and Elaine Eggleston Doherty. "Does Early Adolescent Arrest Alter the Developmental Course of Offending into Young Adulthood?" Journal of Youth and Adolescence published online (5 February 2022): DOI: 10.1007/s10964-022-01576-7.
2. Widdowson, Alex O.
Jacobsen, Wade C.
Siennick, Sonja E.
Warren, Patricia Y.
Together Despite the Odds: Explaining Racial and Ethnic Heterogeneity in Union Dissolution after Incarceration
Criminology 58,1 (February 2020): 129-155.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9125.12232
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Society of Criminology
Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Ethnic Differences; Incarceration/Jail; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Racial Differences

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The U.S. incarceration rate rose dramatically over the past 45 years, increasing the number of marriages and cohabiting unions disrupted by a jail or prison stay. But as some have pointed out, not all unions dissolve as a result of incarceration, and there seems to be racial-ethnic variation in this tendency, with Blacks displaying higher rates of dissolution than Whites and Hispanics. Yet it is unclear what explains racial–ethnic differences in union dissolution among the incarcerated. Drawing on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), we examine why racial-ethnic differences in union dissolution exist among a sample of individuals who had a marital or a cohabiting union interrupted by an incarceration spell. In doing so, we draw on social exchange theory and structural and cultural theories to suggest that racial-ethnic disparities in union dissolution are explained by differential exposure to protective relationship characteristics. The results of Cox hazard models reveal that Blacks have significantly higher hazards of union dissolution than do Whites and Hispanics. These results also indicate that being married, having a child together, having full‐time employment, a longer union duration, and a shorter incarceration spell may protect against dissolution and that these factors account, in part, for the greater risk of dissolution among Blacks relative to Whites and Hispanics.
Bibliography Citation
Widdowson, Alex O., Wade C. Jacobsen, Sonja E. Siennick and Patricia Y. Warren. "Together Despite the Odds: Explaining Racial and Ethnic Heterogeneity in Union Dissolution after Incarceration." Criminology 58,1 (February 2020): 129-155.