5% of families account for > 50% of all arrests

[Monello]

Figure out how to break this cycle and you eliminate half of all arrests. Fascinating study.

Research has revealed that crime tends to concentrate in families and that it also tends to be transmitted across generational lines. The current study expanded on this line of research by examining the familial concentration and transmission of crime in a sample of sibling pairs. Analysis of data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) revealed that 5% of all families accounted for more than 50% of all criminal arrests.

One of the main contributing reasons crime concentrates in families is because of sibling resemblance. What this means is that families that have one child who is antisocial or criminal are statistically more likely to have another child who is also criminal or antisocial. And the more chronic and severe the antisocial behavior, the more likely it is that the siblings will also engage in crime. The end result is that criminal siblings tend to “pile up” in certain families, thereby disproportionately increasing the number of crimes committed by those families.

In the future no doubt you will see criminals sterilized to prevent birthing future criminals.

Importantly, studies that have employed direct measures of criminal behavior have consistently produced evidence indicating that crime is transmitted from parent to offspring.

the top 5% of criminal families accounted for 53% of all criminal arrests in the sample, tabulating almost 1,300 arrests, with an average of 13.96 arrests per family. The top 10% of criminal families accounted for 79% of all arrests, with an average of 8.89 arrests per family. All of the criminal arrests were accounted for by the top 25% of criminal families, with an average of 5.51 arrests per family. Taken together, these results indicate that criminal arrests tend to be confined to a relatively small percentage of all families.

The social and financial costs produced by criminals are staggering, and given the familial concentration of crime, it takes no stretch of the imagination to consider how much of these costs are the result of a small proportion of all families. From a purely economic perspective, being able to identify the small number of criminal families who produce the vast majority of criminals should provide a finely demarcated roadmap into where resources need to be devoted—that is, to families where at least one parent is a criminal and/or where at least one sibling is a criminal. Appropriating a disproportionate concentration of resources to these families in the form of prevention and intervention services could go a long way toward reducing crime, protecting society, and saving taxpayer dollars.

all in the crime family

 

[GURPS]

What this means is that families that have one child who is antisocial or criminal are statistically more likely to have another child who is also criminal or antisocial.



I'm going to call BS on that ....
I have seen plenty of families one child is the quiet shy book worm type that sticks to themselves and other siblings are boysterous outgoing types ...

 

[PeoplesElbow]

What it means if mom and/or dad(s) sell drugs, take drugs, steal etc then their kids are more likely to also. It doesn't mean they will, but it means that their parents taught them that this is ok, it's the way to be.