Table 2.

Extent of Crime Involvement and Child Maltreatment for Men and Women.

	Full Sample (N = 313)a		Maltreated (n = l57)		Comparison (n = 156)
Indicators	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	t
Total crime ever (count)	4.27	4.52	5.27	4.99	3.26	3.75	−4.03**
Females	2.79	3.51	3.65	4.08	2.01	2.71	−2.76**
Males	5.47	4.89	6.45	5.28	4.39	4.19	−2.86**
Total crime past year (count)b	0.83	0.27	0.80	0.29	0.86	0.26	2.04*
Females	0.85	0.26	0.81	0.28	0.89	0.24	1.80†
Males	0.82	0.28	0.79	0.29	0.84	0.27	1.07
Property crime ever (count)	2.28	2.92	2.77	3.18	1.78	2.56	−3.05**
Females	1.44	2.20	1.86	2.56	1.07	1.76	−2.12*
Males	2.95	3.25	3.43	3.42	2.42	2.97	−2.07*
Person crime ever (count)	1.34	1.27	1.62	1.34	1.05	1.14	−4.04***
Females	0.96	1.10	1.23	1.13	0.72	1.01	−2.82**
Males	1.64	1.32	1.90	1.41	1.35	1.16	−2.80**
Society crime ever (count)	0.66	1.03	0.89	1.23	0.44	0.72	−3.95***
Females	0.39	0.87	0.56	1.10	0.23	0.56	−2.21*
Males	0.88	1.10	1.12	1.27	0.62	0.80	−3.12**
Arrest everb (count)	0.71	0.36	0.64	0.37	0.78	0.33	3.37**
Females	0.82	0.29	0.74	0.33	0.88	0.25	2.73**
Males	0.63	0.38	0.57	0.39	0.69	0.37	2.00*
Conviction everb (count)	0.83	0.30	0.78	0.34	0.87	0.26	2.79***
Females	0.90	0.23	0.87	0.27	0.94	0.19	1.74†
Males	0.77	0.34	0.72	0.37	0.82	0.30	2.06*

^aThe total sample of 313 consists of 173 males and 140 females. Count variables were analyzed only among those who had ever committed at least one crime of a total of 36 survey items so as to examine the extent of criminal involvement. The 36 items consist of the 29 items used to scale crime outcome variables of this study in addition to 7 items that were excluded from the scaling. The seven items include “ever drunk in a public place”; “ever been loud, rowdy, or unruly in a public place”; and “ever bought, provided, or made available beer, wine, or liquor for someone under 21,” and they were excluded due to too high a prevalence of such commitment.

^bReciprocal (inverse) transformed variables were used for past-year crimes and counts of arrest and conviction. An inverse-transformed value of a variable is one over its original value. Thus, higher values turn lower in number after transformation, and variable values become reverse ordered. As a result, higher mean values of past-year crime, arrest, and conviction of transformed variables indicate lower numbers in terms of original variables.

^†p < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.