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Maternal Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy and Life-Course-Persistent Offending

Center for Studies in Criminology and Law, University of Florida, P.O. Box 115950, 201 Walker Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-5950

Chris L. Gibson

Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska, Omaha, 6001 Dodge St., Omaha, NE 68182

Stephen G. Tibbetts

Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407

Michael G. Turner

College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115

Solomon H. Katz

W.M. Krogman Center for Research in Child Growth and Development, University of Pennsylvania, 4019 Irving St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6003

Evidence exists documenting the relationship between maternal cigarette smoking and offspring criminal behavior. Although efforts to understand this relationship in a theoretical framework have only recently emerged, attempts made have been grounded in Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy of antisocial behavior. Specifically, maternal cigarette smoking is generally viewed as a potential disruption in the offspring’s neuropsychological development, which is subsequently associated with life-course-persistent offending. Using a birth cohort of 987 African Americans, the authors extend previous research by empirically assessing, prospectively, the link between maternal cigarette smoking and life-course-persistent offending while using different operationalizations of Moffitt’s offending categorization. The authors’ findings offer some support for the relationship between maternal cigarette smoking and life-course-persistentoffending, which is dependenton how this conceptis operationalized.

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