THE CONTEXT OF MARRIAGE AND CRIME: GENDER, THE PROPENSITY TO MARRY, AND OFFENDING IN EARLY ADULTHOOD*

By Ryan D. King, Michael Massoglia, Ross Macmillan. 2007

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Women Coming Home: Long‐Term Patterns of Recidivism (2010, background): “King, Massoglia, and Macmillan (2007) hypothesize that women with low probabilities for marriage may have less “conventionalizing potential”; to attract a suitable mate (p. 57).”
The Impact of Imprisonment on Marriage and Divorce: A Risk Set Matching Approach (2010, background): “…only those 1 For example, Blokland and Nieuwbeerta (2005); Farrington and West (1995); Horney et al. (1995); King et al. (2007); Laub et al. (1998); Laub and Sampson (2003); Ouimet and LeBlanc (1996); Piquero et al. (2002); Sampson and Laub (1990, 1993); Sampson et al. (2006); Shover (1996); Warr…”
Does Marriage Reduce Crime? (2015, methodology): “Ignoring the question of mechanisms, King, Massoglia, and Macmillan (2007) used NYS data to estimate the causal effect of marriage on desistance.”
Human Agency and Explanations of Criminal Desistance: Arguments for a Rational Choice Theory (2015, background): “[45] looked at the relationship between marriage and offending up to approximately age 24 in the National Youth Survey.”
Assessing the Impact of First-Time Imprisonment on Offenders’ Subsequent Criminal Career Development: A Matched Samples Comparison (2009, background): “Research on marriage and crime in general (Laub and Sampson 2003; Blokland and Nieuwbeerta 2005; King et al. 2007) and studies on the data used in this analysis (Blokland and Nieuwbeerta 2005; Bersani et al. 2009) find that marriage is associated with a lower risk of criminal behavior and…”
Men, Women, and Postrelease Offending (2012, background): “Furthermore, in an attempt to examine the effect of social ties on crime, many studies measure marital status and/or intimate partner relationships using dichotomous variables (Griffin & Armstrong, 2003; Horney, Osgood, & Marshall, 1995; Huebner, DeJong, & Cobbina, 2010; King et al., 2007).”
Marriage and Desistance from Crime in the Netherlands: Do Gender and Socio-Historical Context Matter? (2009, background): “Consistent with previous ﬁndings (e.g., King et al. 2007), we ﬁnd that marriage is more beneﬁcial for men; however, marriage is also associated with a decrease in the odds of a conviction for women.”
Liminal Men: Incarceration and Relationship Dissolution (2015, background): “…and Wildeman 2012; Wildeman, Schnittker, and Turney 2012), and a vast literature documenting how marriage leads to desistance from crime (e.g., King, Massoglia, and MacMillan 2007; Sampson and Laub 1993), much less research examines the consequences of incarceration for the dissolution of…”
Reintegration Success and Failure: Factors Impacting Reintegration Among Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women (2010, background): “The literature documents that marriage and/or romantic partnerships can reduce offending for women with moderate propensities towards marriage (King, Massoglia, & MacMillan, 2007 ), increase female criminality (Alarid, Burton, & Cullen, 2000 ; De Li & MacKenzie, 2002 ), or have variable effects o”