@article{ref1,
title="Family Dissolution and Children's Criminal Careers",
journal="European journal of criminology",
year="2009",
author="Skarðhamar, T",
volume="6",
number="3",
pages="203-223",
abstract="This study examines the relationship between family dissolution and children's crimes. The study uses a total population sample of a Norwegian birth cohort born in 1982 ( N = 49,975) and follows them through the crime statistics from ages 10 to 22 years, applying growth curve modelling. Both married and cohabiting parents are considered. There is a large and significant effect from family dissolution that persists after controlling for important economic confounders, even though these also show a high and significant effect. This suggests that, although some of the effect of parental break-up is explained by socioeconomic conditions, there also seems to be an independent and strong effect of family dissolution.<p />",
language="",
issn="1477-3708",
doi="10.1177/1477370809102165",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370809102165"
}