Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system
Diana K. Yerlan T. Rima D. Meruert B. Gulnaz A. Beaver K.M.
1 May 2023Elsevier Ltd
Journal of Criminal Justice
2023#86
Purpose: Findings from a long line of research have shown that having a criminal parent is related to numerous negative and maladaptive outcomes. Of these negative outcomes, offspring criminal behavior has been among the most commonly examined and most consistently detected associations. Interestingly, research to date has failed to fully unpack this association and examine whether parental criminality is used as an extralegal and biasing factor that could trap offspring of criminal parents in the criminal justice system. Methods: The current study sought to address this possibility by analyzing data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Results: Analyses of these data revealed that, for males, having a criminal father was associated with increased risk for being arrested, convicted, and incarcerated even after controlling for low self-control, self-reported delinquency, exposure to delinquent peers, and parental socialization. For females, having a criminal mother and having a criminal father conferred increased risk for all three of these criminal justice processing variables. Conclusions: This study provides some evidence that parental criminality may have a biasing effect on being processed through the criminal justice system.
Add health , Biasing , Criminal parent , Extralegal , Justice
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Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Criminalistics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Higher School of Business and Law, National Agricultural University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 32306-1127, FL, United States
Center for Social and Humanities Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Department of Criminal Law
Higher School of Business and Law
College of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Center for Social and Humanities Research
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