CReAM research in The Telegraph: Teenage criminals more likely to go straight if they have a son.

Analysis of thousands of police and court records by the Centre for the Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) found that young men who fathered a boy, on average, had 25 percent fewer criminal convictions in the first two years.

UCL Economics Professor Christian Dustmann (Director, CReAM) said the research had important lessons for crime prevention by graphically demonstrating the causal link between individuals’ criminal behaviour, suggesting crime was a “social phenomenon and contagious.”

Read the full article here