Pervasive influence of maternal and paternal criminal offending on early childhood development: a population data linkage study

Parental criminal offending is an established risk factor for offending among offspring, but little evidence is available indicating the impact of offending on early childhood functioning. We used data from a large Australian population cohort to determine associations between exposure to parental offending and a range of developmental outcomes at age 5 years.Multi-generation data in 66 477 children and their parents from the New South Wales...