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Social and Parenting Factors Affecting Criminal-Offence Rates

Findings from the Newcastle Thousand Family Study (1947–1980)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

I. Kolvin ,
F. J. W. Miller ,
M. Fleeting  and
P. A. Kolvin
I. Kolvin*
Affiliation:
Nuffield Psychology and Psychiatry Unit and University of Newcastle upon Tyne
F. J. W. Miller
Affiliation:
Royal Victoria Infirmary
M. Fleeting
Affiliation:
Nuffield Psychology and Psychiatry Unit
*
Nuffield Psychology and Psychiatry Unit (for Children and Young People), Fleming Memorial Hospital, Great North Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 3AX
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Abstract

A rare opportunity to study deprivation and criminality across generations arose from the follow-up of the families who participated in the Newcastle Thousand Family Survey. The data on these families had been preserved and it was possible, using criminal records, to examine longitudinally whether children who grew up in ‘deprived’ rather than ‘non-deprived’ families were more at risk of offending during later childhood and beyond. The results of this study suggest that this is indeed so.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 80 - 90
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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*

Because all documents pertaining to the above study were identified by a small red legal seal, the index children became widely and popularly called ‘Redpots’ and the term is useful for descriptive purposes.

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