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This peer-reviewed study utilises the Cambridge study in delinquent development to look at whether criminal convictions are transmitted between people within families. The research found that this was very much the case, especially between parents and children. Conviction transmission also occurs between siblings but particularly in same sex siblings. Statistical tests showed that parental offending was transmitted regardless of environmental factors. For siblings, having three boys in a family usually meant one would directly influence another and environmental factors were likely to have an impact on conviction transmission.
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