Marriage and Offending among a Cohort of Disadvantaged African Americans

• Published in: The journal of research in crime and delinquency Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 104 - 131
• Main Authors: Doherty, Elaine Eggleston, Ensminger, Margaret E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2013; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Africa; African Americans; Arrest; Arrests; Black White Differences; Chicago, Illinois; Crime; Crime Prevention; Criminology; Females; Grade 1; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Males; Marriage; Offenders; Regression analysis; Social control; U.S.A; United States > US; criminological theory; developmental theories; desistance from crime; race/ethnicity; life-course theory

Objectives: Drawing on Sampson and Laub’s age-graded theory of informal social control, this research tests the generalizability of the marriage effect on desistance from crime. Specifically, do urban African American men and women living in the United States benefit from marriage similarly to White...