In an effort to determine the dominance of the maternal role in offspring pre-dispositional criminality, two families were selected. An intergenerational study was conducted with two families that appeared to share certain characteristics: age, educational achievement, age of first pregnancy. One family provided four generations of data, and the other three generations of information. During the field study phase, each subject was asked to respond to inquiries on a variety of questionnaires, self-report surveys, and a personal interview. The results indicated that (a) females in these two families did participate in numerous criminal acts; (b) their husbands/significant others participated in criminal activity; (c) the females were committing the same types and rates of crime as the males in these families; (d) the females' offspring participated in criminal acts; however, (d) female dominance in producing pre-dispositional children could not be definitively determined. / A Thesis submitted to the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Summer Semester, 2007. / March 24, 2006. / Pre-Disposition, Criminality, Maternal Contributions / Includes bibliographical references. / Thomas B. Kelley, Professor Directing Thesis; H. Dale Nute, Committee Member; Graham Kinloch, Committee Member.
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| Contributors | Humphreys, Jackie (authoraut), Kelley, Thomas B. (professor directing thesis), Nute, H. Dale (committee member), Kinloch, Graham (committee member), College of Criminology and Criminal Justice (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
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| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
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