. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 16.

Published in final edited form as: AJS. 2010 Sep 1;116(2):543–582. doi: 10.1086/653835

Table 2.

Behavioral Desistance and the Latent Structure of the Transition to Adulthood

		Conditional Probabilities:
Type of Behavioral Transition	Response	Multifaceted	Socioeconomic	Problematic
Children	No	.281	.989	.267
Children	Yes	.719	.010	.733
Marriage	No	.101	.884	.876
Marriage	Yes	.898	.116	.123
Educational Attainment	No	.400	.195	.674
Educational Attainment	Yes	.600	.805	.326
Self-sufficient	No	.099	.257	.351
Self-sufficient	Yes	.901	.742	.649
Desistance
Abstain	Yes	.204	.184	.199
Desist	Yes	.532	.478	.264
Persist	Yes	.264	.337	.537
Latent class probabilities		.306	.456	.237

Note: N=648 chi-square=37 df=27 index of dissimilarity=0.075

Note: Desistance is measured based on three offenses: Driving while intoxicated (“driven a car after having too much to drink” on multiple occasions), shoplifting (“taking something from a store without paying for it”), and simple assault (“hitting or threatening to hit”).