Linking Childhood and Adult Criminality: Using a Life Course Framework to Examine Childhood Abuse and Neglect, Substance Use and Adult Partner Violence
department or school: Medicine, Faculty of
department or school: Non UBC
department or school: Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
data provider: DSpace
identifier citation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 10 (11): 5470-5489 (2013)
creator: Minh, Anita
creator: Matheson, Flora I.
creator: Daoud, Nihaya
creator: Hamilton-Wright, Sarah
creator: Pedersen, Cheryl
creator: Borenstein, Heidi
creator: O'Campo, Patricia
issued: 2019-04-16T16:24:11Z
issued: 2013-10-28
description: Child abuse and neglect, considered criminal acts under the Criminal Code of Canada, play an important role in substance use, violence, and other criminal behaviour in adulthood. We adopted the life course perspective to identify modifiable contextual influences and co-occurring individual, social, and familial determinants associated with adult criminality. Using in-depth interview data, a sub-sample of 13 women who had recently experienced intimate partner violence, recounted their experiences of childhood abuse, their own substance use or criminality, as well as implications of these factors on their children’s life trajectories. For the purposes of this paper criminality was defined as child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, illegal substance use and underage alcohol use. Our objective was to explore, in our data: (1) patterns and trajectories of criminality from childhood to adulthood among women who were victims of violence, and (2) cumulative effects of early life exposures on experiences of criminality; with the aim of describing the life course perspective as a useful framework to understand criminality along the life trajectory. The analysis was not designed to demonstrate causal connections between early childhood and adulthood experiences of criminality. Rather we generated qualitative and quantitative hypotheses to guide future research in the field. Implications for research and interventions are discussed.
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note: Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2013, 10, 5470-5489; doi:10.3390/ijerph10115470 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ISSN 1660-4601 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph Article Linking Childhood and Adult Criminality: Using a Life Course Framework to Examine Childhood Abuse and Neglect, Substance Use and Adult Partner Violence Anita Minh 1,2,*, Flora I. Matheson 1,3,4, Nihaya Daoud 1,5, Sarah Hamilton-Wright 1, Cheryl Pedersen 1, Heidi Borenstein 1 and Patricia O’Campo 1,3,4 1 Centre for Research on Inner City Health, The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada; E-Mails: MathesonF@smh.ca (F.I.M.); Daoud@bgu.ac.il (N.D.); hamiltons@smh.ca (S.H.-W.); PedersenC@smh.ca (C.P.); BorensteinH@smh.ca (H.B.); O’CampoP@smh.ca (P.O.) 2 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada 3 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada 4 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 27 King’s College Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada 5 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84015, Israel * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: Anita.Minh@ubc.ca; Tel.: +1-647-678-6368. Received: 29 July 2013; in revised form: 29 September 2013 / Accepted: 1 October 2013 / Published: 28 October 2013 Abstract: Child abuse and neglect, considered criminal acts under the Criminal Code of Canada, play an important role in substance use, violence, and other criminal behaviour in adulthood. We adopted the life course perspective to identify modifiable contextual influences and co-occurring individual, social, and familial determinants associated with adult criminality. Using in-depth interview data, a sub-sample of 13 women who had recently experienced intimate partner violence, recounted their ex…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0378239
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/ijerph10115470
rights: CC BY 3.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
scholar level: Faculty
subject: Life course
subject: Intergenerational patterns
subject: Child abuse
subject: Substance use
subject: Criminality
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/69710