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The British Journal of Criminology 44:520-532 (2004)
British Journal of Criminology 44(4) © the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD) 2004; all rights reserved

The Impact of Different Family Configurations on Delinquency

Henriette Haas*, David P. Farrington{dagger}, Martin Killias{ddagger} and Ghazala Sattar§

* Assistant professor of Forensic Psychology and Criminology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
{dagger} Professor of Psychological Criminology, Cambridge University, UK.
{ddagger} Professor of Criminology and Criminal Law, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
§ PhD (Psychology), Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate.

Prof. Henriette Haas, Institut de police scientifique et de criminologie, Bâtiment de Chimie, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Tel. 004121 692 46 41 (office), 004179 226 06 61 (private); Fax 004121 692 46 05; Email: henriette.hass{at}esc.unil.ch

How do outcomes of boys who had experienced family disruption before age 12 years compare with those from intact families? This paper is based on a sample of 21,314 Swiss male recruits who completed a cross-sectional survey at age 20 years. As in the Cambridge Study, disrupted families predicted offending. However, intact high-conflict families predicted the same prevalence of offending as disrupted families. Boys not living with their mother, especially when they had lived in institutions before age 12 years, were most likely to become persistent offenders. Therefore, the dichotomy of disrupted versus intact family hides many important sub-groups, including those living with their mother (low-risk) and those who had experienced institutional rearing (high-risk).


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