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Title: Youth Crime and Family Formation: Does Fatherhood Pull Young Men Out of the High Risk Set for Jail?
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Harper, Cynthia Channing |
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Youth Crime and Family Formation: Does Fatherhood Pull Young Men Out of the High Risk Set for Jail? Presented: New York, NY, American Sociological Association, August 1996 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Fatherhood; Heterogeneity; Incarceration/Jail; Marriage; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parenthood; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Investigates patterns of family formation among a contemporary US youth cohort to assess the association of young fatherhood with criminal activity - whether male reproduction in a nonconventional family unit is likely to be associated with delinquent social behaviors or, conversely, to help pull young men into the social order in increased concern for the future generation. Individual-level data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are used to track a sample of 6,000+ males ages 14-22, 1979-present. The survey is nationally representative, but oversamples disadvantaged populations, who are at higher risk of both young fatherhood & youth crime. Several statistical methodologies are used to model the pathway to incarceration, including continuation ratio models & longitudinal event history analysis, which considers the effects of time-varying covariates. The final methodology is a fixed effects analysis of sibling pairs to control for unobserved heterogeneity, since selection into family formation patterns & criminal activities are strong. Results show that young fathers face greatly increased odds of criminal outcomes, compared to their peers. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Harper, Cynthia Channing. "Youth Crime and Family Formation: Does Fatherhood Pull Young Men Out of the High Risk Set for Jail?" Presented: New York, NY, American Sociological Association, August 1996. |