Sytske Besemer (UC Berkeley): Intergenerational transmission and parental imprisonment in England and the Netherlands

Sytske Besemer (UC Berkeley) arbeider med psykologisk-kriminologiske problemstillinger. Hun tar i dette seminaret opp flere ulike sider ved et klassisk fenomen, nemlig korrelasjonen mellom foreldre og barns i kriminell atferd.

Sytske Besemer, UCB

Abstract

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’, ‘Like father like son’, ‘Chip off the old block’. All these idioms seem to suggest that offspring resemble their parents and this also applies to criminal behaviour. In this talk, I will discuss my research investigating mechanisms that might explain why children with criminal parents have a higher risk of committing crime. I investigated this in England as well as in the Netherlands and I will answer questions such as: does it matter when the parents committed crime in the child’s life? Do more persistent offenders transmit crime more than sporadic offenders? Do violent offenders specifically transmit violent behaviour or general crime to their children? Might the police and courts be biased against certain families? I will focus specifically on the question of whether parental imprisonment poses an extra risk and whether this risk is different in England versus the Netherlands.
 

 

 

Arrangør

AKS-seminaret
Publisert 20. jan. 2016 19:49 - Sist endret 15. aug. 2023 12:48