Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS): Wave 6, 2018-2020 (ICPSR 38016)
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Peggy C. Giordano, Bowling Green State University;
Monica A. Longmore, Bowling Green State University;
Wendy D. Manning, Bowling Green State University
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38016.v1
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Prior research on parental incarceration has documented negative effects on various forms of child well-being ranging from conduct problems to academic deficits and eventually, an intergenerational cycle of criminal justice involvement. Yet as the National Academy of Sciences committee report on incarceration recently concluded, existing research has not adequately assessed the range of other family circumstances and disadvantages that may co-vary with the parent's criminal justice system involvement, and knowledge about basic mechanisms underlying incarceration effects remains markedly incomplete. This study builds on, a ten-year mixed method longitudinal study, the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS), that has focused on the lives of a sample of men and women interviewed first as adolescents and four additional times across the transition to adulthood. The TARS study contains data involving patterns and seriousness of parental offending over the complete study period, as well as about other time-varying factors hypothesized to mediate incarceration-child well-being associations.
The primary goal of this study is to collect survey data to examine the effect of parental incarceration on a range of child well-being outcomes, including conduct problems, academic readiness/achievement and emotional and physical health, among children born to participants in the TARS study. Child well-being outcomes includes internalizing and externalizing problems, academic readiness/attainment, and emotional and physical health. This study also includes parental disadvantages across the three subgroups of system contact, including variation in objective and subjective indicators of economic marginality, relationship difficulties, perceived stress, depression, and lack of social support.
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Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.
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- For additional information on the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study, please visit the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS): Wave 6 website.
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The study focused on three specific aims including: (1) data collection and analyses of parents' criminal justice contact and their reports of child well-being outcomes, (2) data collection and assessment of variability in crime and incarceration exposure across the child's full social network (including multigenerational patterns of parental incarceration), and (3) data collection and investigation of incarceration-specific hypotheses about mediating mechanisms.
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The final sample (n = 990), included 559 women and 431 men with children from 62 schools across seven school districts in Ohio.
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Young adults who were in the 7th, 9th, and 11th grade in Lucas County, Ohio during the 2000-2001 school year.
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1,021 respondents participated in the fifth wave of data collection, 77.6% of the original sample (n=1,316 at the first wave).
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.