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Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement

Makarios, Matthew D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242932727

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2009, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education : Criminal Justice.
As a discipline, criminology has long focused its attention on explaining crime and has thus placed crime almost exclusively as an outcome. As a result, little attention has been paid to the effect that criminal involvement has on other social domains, such as education, work, and relationships. To do so, criminal behavior must be understood as one of several social domains that interact within the broader context of social development. Grounded in this developmental perspective, this research used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997, to examine the consequences of adolescent criminal involvement on social development in early adulthood. The results provide substantial support for the suggested relationships. That is, measures of adolescent delinquency, drug use, and gang membership were found to have significant impacts on adult social outcomes. Adolescent delinquency in particular was shown to have the most consistent effects on measures from the domains of education / employment, health, and social activities. Adolescent criminal involvement, however, had little influence on measures from the domain of social relationships. Support was also shown for indirect effects of adolescent criminal involvement because of associations between social outcomes. That is, criminal involvement in adolescence impacted adult social outcomes through its effect on other social outcomes that existed earlier in the developmental sequence. The results suggest that adolescent criminal involvement has a detrimental impact on a variety of social outcomes in early adulthood. The data also suggest that social outcomes are interrelated and that criminal involvement is better viewed as one of a variety of social domains which are connected within the context of general social development.
Francis T. Cullen, PhD (Committee Chair)
John P. Wright, PhD (Committee Member)
Pamela Wilcox, PhD (Committee Member)
David Maume, PhD (Committee Member)
234 p.
Criminology
life-course criminology; criminal involvement; later life outcomes

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  • Makarios, M. D. (2009). Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242932727

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Makarios, Matthew. Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242932727.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Makarios, Matthew. "Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242932727

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