. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 7.

Published in final edited form as: J Res Crime Delinq. 2011 Nov 2;50(1):104–131. doi: 10.1177/0022427811423106

Table 2.

Hierarchical Overdispersed Poisson Models of Marriage and Offending: Males, Aged 17 to 32 (N = 461).

	Total Crime	Violent Crime	Property Crime	Drug Crime

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4

	Estimate (SE)	Estimate (SE)	Estimate (SE)	Estimate (SE)
Intercept	−2.787^*** (.3926)	−4.163^*** (.3560)	−4.029^*** (.2899)	−3.870^*** (.3207)
Within individual
Age	.043^*** (.0064)	.072^*** (.0085)	.015^* (.0069)	−.027^*** (.0059)
Age²		.004^** (.0011)	.008^*** (.0013)	.030^*** (.0011)
Marriage	−.345^* (.0840)**	−.452^* (.1056)**	−.334^ (.1020)**	−.238^* (.1112)
Between individual
Years married (17 to 32)	−.094^*** (.0166)	−.076^*** (.0138)	−.134^*** (.0163)	−.083^*** (.0147)
Early disadvantage	.589^*** (.1460)	.661^*** (.1231)	.560^*** (.1163)	.308^* (.1274)
High school dropout	.554^** (.1763)	.650^*** (.1180)	.640^*** (.1584)	.570^*** (.1246)
First grade aggression	.548^*** (.1260)	.351^** (.1194)	.806^*** (.1245)	.188^* (.0924)

Note. Bold values indicate the within-individual effect of marriage on offending.

^***

p < .001.

^**

p < .01.

p < .05.