• Crime and the transition to marriage. The roles of gender and partner’s criminal involvement 

      Monsbakken, Christian Weisæth; Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde; Skarðhamar, Torbjørn (Discussion Papers;No. 678, Working paper, 2012)
      Several previous studies have argued that marriage leads to a decline in criminal propensity. Most of these studies have focused on men and have given little attention to the characteristics of their partner and events ...
    • Crime and the transition to parenthood. The role of sex and relationship context 

      Monsbakken, Christian Weisæth; Skarðhamar, Torbjørn; Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde (Discussion Papers;673, Working paper, 2012)
      Research on desistance from crime has paid little attention to parenthood as a “turning point”. In this paper, we use Norwegian register data on a population of men and women who had their first child between 1995 and 2001 ...