Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and life-course-persistent offending
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Published on: August 25, 2014
Alex R Piquero1, Chris L Gibson, Stephen G Tibbetts
1University of Florida, Center for Studies in Criminology and Law, P.O. Box 115950, 201 Walker Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-5950, USA. apiquero@crim.ufl.edu
Abstract:
Evidence exists documenting the relationship between maternal cigarette smoking and offspring criminal behavior. Although efforts to understand this relationship in a theoretical framework have only recently emerged, attempts made have been grounded in Moffitt's developmental taxonomy of antisocial behavior. Specifically, maternal cigarette smoking is generally viewed as a potential disruption in the offspring's neuropsychological development, which is subsequently associated with life-course-persistent offending. Using a birth cohort of 987 African Americans, the authors extend previous research by empirically assessing, prospectively, the link between maternal cigarette smoking and life-course-persistent offending while using different operationalizations of Moffitt's offending categorization. The authors' findings offer some support for the relationship between maternal cigarette smoking and life-course-persistent offending, which is dependent on how this concept is operationalized.
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