title: Like Parent Like Child? The Role of Delayed Childrearing in Breaking the Link Between Parent's Offending and Their Children's Antisocial Behavior.
abstract: This paper investigates the impact of parents' history of violent offending, their age at first birth, and the interaction of the two on their adolescent children's violent behavior. We employ intergenerational longitudinal data from the Rochester Youth Development Study to estimate parental trajectories of offending from their early adolescence through early adulthood. We show that the particular shape of the parents' propensity of offending over time can interact with their age at first birth to protect their children from delinquency. We investigate these relationships for children at 6 and 10 years of age. We find that for some groups delaying childrearing can insulate children from their parents' offending.
authors.affiliation: School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, Albany NY.
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lizotte
authors.affiliation: School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, Albany NY.
authors.forename: Matthew D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville FL.
authors.forename: Marvin D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Krohn
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park MD.
authors.forename: Terence P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Thornberry
authors.affiliation: School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, Albany NY.
authors.forename: Shawn D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Bushway
authors.affiliation: Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University, Boston MA.
authors.forename: Nicole M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Schmidt
keywords: Developmental Stages; Intergenerational Delinquency; Risk and Protective Factors; Trajectory Analysis