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This study compares an English and Swedish cohort to see whether parental imprisonment predicted sons' delinquency even when controlling for criminality and other factors (as was proven for the English cohort previously). In Sweden, this was found not to be the case. The authors suggest this may be because of shorter sentence length, friendly prison policy, welfare based young offenders system or more sympathetic public attitudes towards crime and punishment.
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