TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Family Dissolution and Children's Criminal Careers
JO  - European journal of criminology
A1  - Skarðhamar, T
SP  - 203
EP  - 223
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 />
LA  - 
SN  - 1477-3708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370809102165
ID  - ref1
ER  -