University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ScholarWorks @ UTRGV Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations College of Liberal Arts 2-22-2019 Parental Incarceration and Social Status Attainment of Hispanic Young Adults Igor Ryabov The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/soc_fac Part of the Criminal Law Commons, and the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation Ryabov, I. (2020). Parental Incarceration and Social Status Attainment of Hispanic Young Adults. Crime & Delinquency, 66(1), 123–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128719833356 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Liberal Arts at ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Parental Incarceration and Social Status Attainment of Hispanic Young Adults Abstract The fact that parental incarceration has become a common event in the life course of many children is troubling. Using structural equation modeling, the present study investigates how immigrant generational status, family socio-economic background interact with parental incarceration to influence status attainment for Hispanic young adults. Three indicators of status attainment in young adulthood are used as outcome variables ─ educational attainment, wage and job quality. Results indicate that parental incarceration has a strong and negative influence on all three indicators of attained status. Most importantly, we found that parental incarceration mediates influence of immigrant generational status and family socio-economic background on status attainment of Hispanic young adults.