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All research and evidence on NICCO is reviewed using a Quality Assessment Tool (QAT) developed by the University of Huddersfield and Barnardo's.

Research and evidence is assessed in four key areas: Methodological Quality, Child-Centredness, Relevance to Policy and Strategy, and Relevance to Practice with offender's children. This ensures that items on the NICCO website are as useful as possible to academics, practitioners, commissioners and other professionals. For more information about the development of the QAT or to review research in order to list it on NICCO, please see the QAT webpage where you can download the Tool, Guidebook and a short step-by-step 'How To' document. Please contact us to submit quality assessed research on to NICCO.

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121. The Familial Transmission of Criminality

You will need to become a member of Sage Publications and have access to Med Sci Law to access the full article. The names of a sample of young males, their parents and their siblings were searched for in the Criminal Record Office. A concentration of criminality among a minority of families was observed, and possible reasons for it investigated in this peer-reviewed study. Learn more about the familial transmission of criminality below:

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122. Parental imprisonment: Effects on boys' anti social behaviour and delinquency through the life-course

You will need access to Wiley Online to access the full report. This piece of research is another which utilises the large scale longitudinal Cambridge study in delinquent development. It compares boys under 10 who were separated from their fathers by imprisonment with those separated by prison before their birth by hospitalisation or death, disharmony in the family, and with those that were not separated from their fathers. The findings show that separation due to imprisonment was much...

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123. The familial transmission of criminal convictions

You will need a Wiley Online Library log in to access the full article. 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...

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124. Crime in adult offspring of prisoners: A cross-national comparison of two longitudinal samples

You will need to become a member of Sage Publications to access the full article. 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...

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125. Parental incarceration, attachment and child psychopathology

You will need to become a member of Taylor & Francis Online Journals to access the full article. In this peer-reviewed article, theory and evidence around psychopathology, attachment and incarceration are reviewed. It argues that parental imprisonment can lead to the cause of psychopathology in children because insecure attachment is prevalent (because parental relationships can be severed, there can be inconsistent care giving, confused stories about the parent's whereabouts and...

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126. Children's contact with their imprisoned fathers and the father-child relationship following release

This peer reviewed study uses data from a UK mixed methods longitudinal study to explore how good quality face-to-face and telephone contact between children and imprisoned fathers correlated positively with a good relationship post release. This was found to be significantly the case even when controlling for how long the father-child relationship lasted prior to imprisonment. Qualitative data to substantiate these findings highlighted that limited familiar interactions such as emotional...

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