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Title: Criminal Justice Contact, Residential Independence, and Returns to the Parental Home
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1. Warner, Cody
Remster, Brianna
Criminal Justice Contact, Residential Independence, and Returns to the Parental Home
Journal of Marriage and Family published online (20 January 2021): DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12753.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12753
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Arrests; Criminal Justice System; Incarceration/Jail; Residence, Return to Parental Home/Delayed Homeleaving

Background: More young adults live with their parents today than live independently. Despite the prevalence of criminal justice contact among young Americans, and research suggesting that such contact can reshape the life course, it is unknown whether the criminal justice system is associated with patterns of home‐leaving and home‐returning.

Method: Data are drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, a sample of 8,984 young adults born between 1980 and 1984. Event history analyses are used to examine the timing of home‐leaving (n = 810,274 person‐months), and among those who leave, the timing of home‐returning (n = 630,394 person‐months). Criminal justice contact is measured via self‐reported arrests and spells of incarceration.

Results: Across both the short term and long term, there is a robust association between criminal justice contact and residential transitions out of and back into the parental home. The risk of experiencing home‐leaving or home‐returning is considerably higher in the month an individual is arrested or completes a spell of incarceration, compared to individuals with no contact. Additionally, especially for arrest, the risk of each residential transition remains elevated in the months and years that follow contact.

Bibliography Citation
Warner, Cody and Brianna Remster. "Criminal Justice Contact, Residential Independence, and Returns to the Parental Home." Journal of Marriage and Family published online (20 January 2021): DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12753.