NCJ Number
131491
Date Published
1990
Length
78 pages
Annotation
A 1990 workshop focusing on the relationship between family structure and ethnicity focused on theories of the family and ethnicity and published data testing aspects of those theories and gaps in the data.
Abstract
Participants included the 11 invited scholars who led discussions and prepared discussion papers, researchers, a representative of NIJ, and staff of the Harvard School of Public Health Program on Human Development and Criminal Behavior. The workshop was organized around 14 questions in five categories: family structure, longitudinal methodology, ethnicity, intergenerational transmission, and links between the family and the community. Discussions examined methods of measuring family structure, the role of the extended family in children's psychological development, outcomes of children who experience foster care, and the psychosocial adjustment of children in female-headed households. They also considered the measurement of ethnicity; the relationship between family factors and community factors in explaining crime; and theories explaining the link between ethnicity, deviant behavior, and crime. Figures, discussion papers, and list of participants