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OLS:
Peggy C. Giordano (PI)
Monica A. Longmore (CI)
Wendy D. Manning (CI)
This research, referred to as the Ohio Longitudinal Study (OLS), builds on the first contemporary longitudinal follow-up of
a sample of serious adolescent female offenders. Funding from the W. T. Grant foundation has allowed us to conduct an additional
wave of follow-up interviews centered on issues of parenting and child well-being within the design framework of a sample
characterized by multiple, overlapping layers of family and environmental risk. The study focuses on determining the nature
and extent of risk to children born to individuals who, during their adolescent years, evidenced serious, recurrent involvement
in antisocial patterns of behavior; assessing the relative impact of high levels of maternal and paternal deviance on the
nature and extent of child risk; describing the mechanisms that may underlie observed cross-generational continuities; and
identifying individual, familial, and other social protective factors associated with variations in child-well-being against
a backdrop of serious family-related risk.
SPIRITUAL TRANS:
Spritual Transformation and Anti-social Behavior: A Follow-up of Serious Male and Female Offender
Peggy C. Giordano (PI)
Monica A. Longmore (CI)
Building on the Ohio Longitudinal Study, this research utilizes a longitudinal approach to examine criminal behavior and desistance
from crime and anti-social behavior. We examine the extent to which and mechanisms through which religious and other spiritual
transformations connect to successful movement away from a criminal lifestyle. Our primary interest is to conceptualize and
model a more fully interactive relationship between an individual’s inner life experiences, which may or may not be associated
with more traditional measures of religiosity, and criminal and anti-social behavior. We supplement data gathered through
structured interviews with qualitative in-depth life history narratives gathered at two points in time. Through the narratives,
we attempt to elicit and specify the role of religious experiences in desistance processes – both as a core change mechanism,
and as a factor that energizes and reinforces other beneficial life changes
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