DOES MARRIAGE REDUCE CRIME? A COUNTERFACTUAL APPROACH TO WITHIN‐INDIVIDUAL CAUSAL EFFECTS*

By R. Sampson, J. Laub, C. Wimer. 2006

759 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Health

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In Demography

1. N. Sarkisian
2. J. Brüderl
3. Junsen Zhang
4. D. Mears
5. N. Gerstel
6. V. Ludwig
7. Sonja E. Siennick
8. Rebecca Dizon-Ross

In Gender Studies

1. N. Gerstel
2. N. Sarkisian
3. L. Edlund
4. J. Brüderl
5. Junsen Zhang
6. D. Mears
7. V. Ludwig
8. Sonja E. Siennick

In Health

1. Melissa Thompson
2. N. Sarkisian
3. M. Petrović
4. William D. Bales
5. D. Mears
6. N. Gerstel
7. Joshua C. Cochran
8. Sonja E. Siennick

Citations in the corpus

• Holy Warriors (2008, background): “Building on such findings, Sampson et al. (2006) argued that marriage becomes a positive influence for desistance only once the relationship meets certain quality criteria.”
• Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China (2013, background): “Also, the sociology of crime has noted unmarried young men to be the most crime-prone demographic, an association that has often been construed as causal (Messner & Sampson (1991); Barber (2000); Sampson et al. (2006)). In addition to the socializing effect of marriage, prospective marital status co”
• Does singlehood isolate or integrate? Examining the link between marital status and ties to kin, friends, and neighbors (2016, background): “Indeed, as Sampson, Laub, and Wimer (2006) find, marriage reduces criminal activities and incarceration, at least for White men.”