Discussion Papers no. 673

The role of sex and relationship context

Crime and the transition to parenthood

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Research on desistance from crime has paid little attention to parenthood as a “turning point”. In this paper, we use Norwegian register data on a population of men and women who had their first child between 1995 and 2001 (131,167 women and 127,415 men). We provide separate estimates for sex and marital status as parenthood has different implications for men and women. Their social and economic situations will also vary by marital status, which is likely to have implications for offending. We describe the changes in offending for this sample year-by-year, comparing subjects before and after child-birth. Overall, we find that the transition to parenthood is characterized by a decrease in criminal activity. There is considerable heterogeneity between women and men. The term “turning point” applies only to men who are not living with the other parent.

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Tittel

Crime and the transition to parenthood. The role of sex and relationship context

Ansvarlige

Christian Weisæth Monsbakken, Torbjørn Skarðhamar, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad

Serie og -nummer

Discussion Papers no. 673

Utgiver

Statistics Norway

Emne

Discussion Papers

ISSN

1892-753X

Antall sider

28

Målform

Engelsk

Om Discussion Papers

Discussion papers comprise research papers intended for international journals and books. A preprint of a Discussion Paper may be longer and more elaborate than a standard journal article as it may include intermediate calculations, background material etc.

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