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Parents' Provision of Instrumental and Emotional Support to Young Adults with Criminal Justice Contact

Douthat, Cameron
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu156317016279803

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2019, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Sociology.
Prior research regarding parents’ provision of instrumental support and its relation to criminal activity has found that, when comparing criminal children to their noncriminal siblings, parents are more likely to provide instrumental support to criminal children. The provision of this support is key to ensuring stability and success during emerging adulthood, and this support becomes even more important for individuals who have been exposed to the criminal justice system. This thesis examined the association between parents’ provision of instrumental and emotional assistance and adult children’s criminal behavior in models that included measures of parents’ own prior criminal behavior and reports of disapproval toward adult children. Specifically, three research questions are addressed: Are parents more likely to provide instrumental and emotional support if their children have encountered the criminal justice system, does parent criminal justice contact decrease the likelihood of providing instrumental and emotional support, and does parent disapproval decrease the likelihood of providing both instrumental and emotional support? Using data from the Toledo Adolescent Relationship Study (n = 875), multiple regression analyses were used to assess instrumental support, emotional support, and criminal activity. While societal norms constrain parents and encourage the provision of instrumental support to family members in need, I found that those constraints dissolve in the context of emotional support, where parent disapproval seemed to override pressures to provide support to young adults that have experienced criminal justice contact.
Monica Longmore, Ph.D (Advisor)
Peggy Giordano, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Wendy Manning, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Raymond Swisher, Ph.D (Committee Member)
42 p.
Criminology; Social Psychology; Sociology
Desistance from crime; family support; instrumental support; emotional support; parental disapproval; criminal activity; criminal justice contact

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  • Douthat, C. (2019). Parents' Provision of Instrumental and Emotional Support to Young Adults with Criminal Justice Contact [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu156317016279803

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Douthat, Cameron. Parents' Provision of Instrumental and Emotional Support to Young Adults with Criminal Justice Contact. 2019. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu156317016279803.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Douthat, Cameron. "Parents' Provision of Instrumental and Emotional Support to Young Adults with Criminal Justice Contact." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu156317016279803

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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