Table 5.

Group-Specific Models for Nonlinear Decomposition of Group Differences in Arrest

Variables	Black		Mexican		White
	Coefficient	SE	Coefficient	SE	Coefficient	SE
Intercept (expected count of arrests at age 17)	–1.857***	0.065	–3.338***	0.150	–3.395***	0.266
Neighborhood-Level Variables
Concentrated poverty	0.152*	0.074	0.610	0.306	1.085*	0.526
% foreign-born	0.020***	0.005	–0.017	0.015	0.124***	0.027
Residential stability	0.050	0.103	–0.458**	0.166	–0.742	0.521
Collective efficacy	0.172	0.512	0.824	0.870	5.895***	1.029
Tolerance of deviance	0.893	0.602	0.601	1.301	5.107	3.043
Individual-Level Variables
Male	1.674***	0.143	2.267***	0.201	1.218*	0.571
Cohort (vs. cohort 12)
Cohort 15	–0.922***	0.196	–1.180***	0.286	–1.550**	0.517
Cohort 18	–1.121***	0.196	–1.490***	0.382	–1.977***	0.588
Age	0.457***	0.025	0.400***	0.047	0.580***	0.047
Age2	–0.081***	0.006	–0.072***	0.011	–0.127***	0.011
Family socioeconomic status	–0.136*	0.055	0.104	0.102	–0.341*	0.158
Married parents	–0.485**	0.161	–0.838***	0.252	–1.772***	0.529
Adult extended family	0.403**	0.155	–0.249	0.552	–0.418	0.785
Number of children	0.086***	0.024	0.049	0.063	–0.084	0.127
Family control	0.001	0.008	0.028**	0.009	–0.022	0.031
Self-reported criminal offending (SRO)	0.476***	0.089	0.751***	0.140	0.483	0.300
SRO × Concentrated poverty	–0.097	0.127	0.068	0.257	–0.491	0.521
SRO × % foreign-born	0.002	0.008	–0.027*	0.011	–0.017	0.035
SRO × Residential stability	–0.200	0.110	–0.417*	0.212	1.085***	0.303
SRO × Collective efficacy	0.407	0.551	0.932*	0.450	–2.875*	1.246
SRO × Tolerance of deviance	–2.971***	0.630	–1.493	0.803	0.364	1.929

Notes: Age is centered at 17. Because of lack of variation in immigrant generational status for black subjects (i.e., 96% of subjects are third-generation immigrants or higher), measures of immigrant status have been dropped from decomposition analyses.

^*p ≤ .05;

^**p ≤ .01;

^***p ≤ .001