The Cycle of Deviant Behavior: Investigating Intergenerational Parallelism [Paperback]

To conduct this study on criminal and antisocial behavior, the authors devoted years to collecting data from a large community sample of first-generation subjects. Data were garnered throughout their early adolescence, twenties, and thirties as well as from these first-generation subjects biological children during their own early adolescence. The results of these studies have profound implications for future research and methodology on deviant behavior.

This volume is about understanding the relationship between deviance and selected correlates of deviance in one generation and deviance and its selected correlates in the next generation. By examining the significance of these constructs in the parental generation as part of the explanation for the same constructs in the childs generation, we contribute to an und- standing of the phenomena. This contribution, however, is quite limited in the sense that we are examining in essence bivariate relationshipsthe association between first-generation and second-generation phenomena while ignoring all of the other influences on the second-generation p- nomena that do not stem from or account for the intergenerational relationship. Nevertheless, the study of intergenerational parallelism of deviance and its correlates justifiably has excited attention and resulted in a vo- minous literature greater than might have been expected for any parti- lar bivariate relationships because of the mystique surrounding ideascycle of violence, reproduction of culture, to name but a fewthat are evoked by consideration of the association between such phenomena in one generation and the same phenomena in a successive generation.Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Intergenerational Parallelism of Deviance.- Toward an Understanding of Intergenerational Parallelism of Deviance.- Method.- The Conditional Nature of Intergenerational Parallelism.- Observing Intergenerational Parallelism in Deviance.- Moderatl³(