Criminal Justice Dissertation Ideas

[sanantone]

Recently I have been wondering about sexual history and incarceration. For example, how many convicts are virgins when they enter prison? How many had never looked at porn? If married at the time of conviction, how many only had sex with their spouse (one sex partner total)? How many convicts had parents who waited to have sex before marriage?

Has this sort of research already been done?

Thanks for the ideas. I don't know if research has been done on this, but I would bet a million dollars that virgins in prison are rare. Offenders tend to start having sex at an early age and many of them start having children in their teens and early twenties. It would be difficult to track down the sexual history of their parents. In general, most Americans don't wait until marriage to have sex, so I don't think there is much of a correlation between having a child who is a convict and not waiting until marriage to have sex. In 2002, 95% of the respondents to the National Survey oTof Family Growth said they had premarital sex.

Most Americans have had premarital sex, study finds - USATODAY.com

To add, since most offenders have low self-control, they are more likely to cheat on their partners.