. 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 3.

Hierarchical Overdispersed Bernoulli Models of Marriage and Offending: Females, Aged 17 to 32 (N = 504).

	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	−2.824^*** (.1001)	−3.128^*** (.0469)	−2.703^*** (.0820)	−3.407^*** (.0435)
Within individual
Age	.019^*** (.0035)	.000 (.0018)	.026^*** (.0024)	−.062^*** (.0017)
Age²	.010^*** (.0007)	.016^*** (.0004)	.012^*** (.0005)
Marriage	−.084 (.0550)	−.022 (.0384)	−.106^* (.0442)	.091^* (.0384)
Between individual
Years married (17 to 32)	−.029^*** (.0054)	−.044^*** (.0018)	−.014^** (.0038)	−.045^*** (.0030)
Early disadvantage	−.006 (.0395)	.008 (.0179)	−.121^** (.0358)	.098^*** (.0161)
High school dropout	.432^*** (.0839)	.165^** (.0312)	.305^*** (.0746)	.135^*** (.0328)
First grade aggression	.329^*** (.0768)	.169^*** (.0277)	.171^** (.0633)	.216^*** (.0400)

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

^***

p < .001.

^**

p < .01.

p < .05.