Roundtable: An Intergenerational Perspective on Criminal Behavior

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

One of the most influential and intimate relationships within the life-course of an individual is the relationship between parent and child. Children often resemble their parents in socioeconomic status, family formation, or political attitudes. We also know that there are families who are stuck in a negative cycle of criminal behavior, poverty, substance abuse, teenage pregnancies, poor parenting and other adverse life circumstances. This can be considered a substantive societal problem, for which solutions are not yet evident. Breaking these intergenerational chains is possible and it is therefore extremely important to study problematic and criminal behavior – as well as related problems and life events – from an intergenerational perspective.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Chair

• Veroni Eichelsheim, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)

Discussants

• Steve van de Weijer, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement

• Arjan A.J. Blokland, NSCR

• Brandon C. Welsh, Northeastern University / NSCR

• Peggy Giordano, Bowling Green State University

• Sytske Besemer, University of California, Berkeley

• Catrien Bijleveld, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement

• Melvin Soudijn, National Police of the Netherlands

• Barbora Hola, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam