Objectives

I draw on general strain theory, a framework often used to understand adolescent behavior, and augment it with aspects of the stress process perspective to examine the time-varying consequences of paternal incarceration for adolescent behavior.

Methods

I use six waves of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a cohort of children born around the turn of the twenty-first century, and inverse probability of treatment weighting models to estimate the time-varying relationship between paternal incarceration and adolescent behavior problems and the mechanisms underlying this relationship.

Results

Results document three main findings. First, adolescents exposed to paternal incarceration at any point in the life course have more behavior problems than their counterparts not exposed to paternal incarceration. Second, exposure to paternal incarceration during early childhood, but not during middle childhood or early adolescence, is positively associated with behavior problems. Third, this relationship is partially explained by family adversities stemming from paternal incarceration.

Conclusions

This research builds on our criminological understanding of how strains, such as paternal incarceration, can facilitate inequalities in adolescent behavior by considering dynamic selection into paternal incarceration, the time-varying repercussions of paternal incarceration, and the mechanisms linking paternal incarceration to adolescent behavior. Early life course paternal incarceration facilitates chains of adversity that accumulate throughout early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.

中文翻译：

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逆境链：青春期行为的父亲监禁的时变后果

目标

我借鉴了一般的应变理论，这是一个通常用于理解青少年行为的框架，并从压力过程的角度对它进行了扩充，以研究父亲监禁对青少年行为的时变后果。

方法

我使用了脆弱家庭与儿童健康研究的六波数据，该研究是在二十一世纪初出生的一组儿童，以及治疗加权模型的逆概率，以估计父亲监禁与青少年行为之间的时变关系。问题和这种关系的潜在机制。

结果

结果记录了三个主要发现。首先，青少年在生活过程中任何时候都遭受父亲监禁的行为比未遭受父亲监禁的青少年的行为问题更多。第二，在儿童早期（而不是在儿童中期或青春期）暴露于父亲的监禁与行为问题正相关。第三，这种关系部分由父亲监禁带来的家庭困境来解释。

结论

这项研究建立在我们对诸如父亲监禁之类的菌株如何通过考虑对父亲监禁的动态选择，父亲监禁的时变影响以及将父亲监禁与青少年行为联系起来的机制如何促进青春期行为不平等的犯罪学理解上。生命早期阶段的父亲监禁会促进逆境链的积累，这些逆境链会在儿童早期，儿童中期和青春期积累。