Table 5.

Binary Logistic Regression Odds Ratios of Preference for Electronic Monitoring Over Prison.

	Model 1	Model 1W	Model 1B	Diff.a
Black	0.58*	—	—
Male	0.85*	0.72*	1.85*	p < .001
Educationb
Less than high school	0.90	0.93	0.82	NS
Attended college	1.15	0.97	2.01	NS
Age	0.97***	0.97**	0.98*	NS
Had job	1.09	1.27	0.83	NS
Responsibility for child(ren)b
Full-time	1.87**	1.87***	2.14*	NS
Part-time	1.31	1.48	0.99	NS
Childhood localeb
Medium city	1.50*	1.69*	1.42	NS
Small city/town/rural	1.13	1.28	0.85	NS
Exp. childhood poverty	1.33	1.22	1.79	NS
Mother’s educationb
Less than high school	1.07	1.14	0.87	NS
Attended college	1.17	1.44*	0.73	NS
Unknown	0.81	0.82	0.71	NS
Parent incarcerated	1.00	1.01	0.97	NS
Sibling incarcerated	0.72**	0.69***	0.74	NS
Uncle/aunt incarcerated	1.44þ	1.47	1.39	NS
Cousin incarcerated	0.94	0.93	0.96	NS
Pseudo-R2	0.06	0.06	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.