Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192660 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 678
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Several previous studies have argued that marriage leads to a decline in criminal propensity. Most of these studies have focused on men and have given little attention to the characteristics of their partner and events related to changes in offending. In this article, we use Norwegian registry data to study changes in the criminal propensity for all persons who married between 1995 and 2001 (117,882 women and 120,912 men). We link data on individuals to data on their marital partners and obtain information on partners' criminal histories. We find that the changes in offending rates related to marriage are anticipatory and strongest for men. The changes in offending vary substantially by partner's criminal history.
Subjects: 
marriage
crime
social control
gender
assortative mating
JEL: 
J12
K14
K49
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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