Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192655 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 673
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
parenthood
crime
social control theory
sex
register data
turning points
JEL: 
J12
K49
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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