Table 4.

Results of Logistic Regression Relating Community Violence Characteristics to Delinquency among Adolescents who Witnessed Community Violence (N = 1345)

Predictor	B(SE)	Wald	OR	CI (95%)
Age	−0.04 (0.06)	0.34	0.96	0.84–1.09
Male gender	0.72 (0.16)	20.35	2.05***	1.50–2.79
Black	0.35 (0.19)	3.42	1.43	0.98–2.08
Native American	0.26 (0.40)	0.43	1.30	0.59–2.89
Asian American	−1.35 (0.65)	4.31	0.26*	0.07–0.92
Hispanic	0.58 (0.22)	6.86	1.78**	1.16–2.75
Trauma history	0.76 (0.21)	12.91	2.15***	1.41–3.26
Multiple incidents of witnessed community violence	1.09 (0.16)	45.12	2.96***	2.16–4.07
Age at first incident	0.00 (0.02)	0.00	1.00	1.96–1.04
Age at last incident	0.16 (0.05)	9.31	1.17**	1.06–1.29
Violence occurred at home	0.06 (0.50)	0.01	1.06	0.40–2.82
Violence occurred in neighborhood	0.47 (0.18)	6.91	1.60**	1.13–2.28
Violence occurred in other location	0.24 (0.22)	1.11	1.27	0.81–1.97
Victim was a relative	0.37 (0.43)	0.76	1.45	0.63–3.34
Victim was a known non-relative	0.13 (0.17)	0.59	1.14	0.81–1.60
Perpetrator was a relative	1.07 (0.41)	6.78	2.91**	1.30–6.52
Perpetrator was a known non-relative	0.37 (0.18)	4.33	1.45*	1.02–2.05

Note. Reference groups for predictor variables were as follows: racial/ethnic groups: White; trauma history: no history of direct trauma; multiple incidents of witnessed violence: one incident of witnessed violence; violence location: school; relationship to victim/perpetrator: stranger. OR = odds ratio. CI = confidence interval.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.