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A Review of Marital and Family Variables as They Relate to Adult Criminal Recidivism
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The relationship between marital and family variables and adult recidivism is explored. Sections following an executive summary are: introduction; prediction of criminal recidivism among adults; marital or family variables related to prediction of adult criminal recidivism; summary; critique of research design and methodology; and recommendations. Family factors that may be potential predictors of adult criminal recidivism include "family psychopathology, quality of parent-child relationships, experiences of childhood victimization, marital status and quality of the relationship" (p. iii).