Legacies of Crime: A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys [Hardcover]

This book follows a cohort of seriously delinquent girls and boys over twenty years, documenting the effects of their criminal involvement on their children.Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys who were followed over a twenty-year period as they navigated the transition to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children depict the adults economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique vulnerabilities of their children.Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys who were followed over a twenty-year period as they navigated the transition to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children depict the adults economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique vulnerabilities of their children.Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys who were followed over a twenty-year period as they navigated the transition to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children  a majority now adolescents themselves  depict the adults economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique vulnerabilities of their children. Giordano identifies family dynamics that foster the intergenerational transmission of crime, violence, and drug abuse, rejecting the notion that such continuities are based solely on genetic similarities or even lax, inconsistent parenting. The author breaks new ground in directly exploring  and in the process revising  the basic tenets of classic social learning theories, and confronting the complications associated with the parents gender. Legacies of Crime also identifies factors associated with resilience in the face of what is often a formidable package of risks favoring intergenerational continuity.1. Introduction; 2. Literature review and conceptual flS\