Table 4.

Binary Logistic Regression Odds Ratios of Preference for Community Service Over Prison.

	Model 1	Model 1W	Model 1B	Diff.a
Black	0.53***	—	—
Male	0.67*	0.63*	0.77	NS
Educationb
Less than high school	0.90	0.87	1.04	NS
Attended college	1.19	1.27	0.86	NS
Age	0.98**	0.98**	0.98	NS
Had job	0.97	1.10	0.75	NS
Responsibility for child(ren)b
Full-time	1.27	1.34þ	1.27	NS
Part-time	1.15	1.38	0.66	p < .05
Childhood localeb
Medium city	1.90**	1.48*	2.58**	p < .05
Small city/town/rural	1.18	1.08	1.37	NS
Exp. childhood poverty	1.15	1.20	1.01	NS
Mother’s educationb
Less than high school	1.24	1.26	1.29	NS
Attended college	1.12	1.19	0.93	NS
Unknown	0.80	0.82	0.69	NS
Parent incarcerated	0.84	0.89	0.70	NS
Sibling incarcerated	0.93	0.87	1.09	NS
Uncle/aunt incarcerated	1.36	1.35	1.50	NS
Cousin incarcerated	0.91	0.83	1.17	NS
Pseudo-R2	0.05	0.03	0.07
n	1,024	719	305

Note. NS = not significant.

^aSignificance test for difference between Whites and Blacks.

^bReference categories: high school (education), no children (responsibility for children), large city/suburb (childhood locale), high school (mother’s education).

^þp < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.