. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Race Justice. 2015 Oct 14;6(3):236–256. doi: 10.1177/2153368715603103

Table 6.

Binary Logistic Regression Odds Ratios of Preference for at Least One of the Three Correctional Alternatives to Prison.

	Model 1	Model 1W	Model 1B	Diff.^a
Black	0.64^þ	—	—
Male	0.90	0.66^**	1.69^*	p < .001
Education^b
Less than high school	0.77	0.74^*	0.77	NS
Attended college	1.17	1.29	0.95	NS
Age	0.99	0.98^þ	1.00	p < .10
Had job	0.90	1.08	0.68	NS
Responsibility for child(ren)^b
Full-time	1.64^þ	1.24	3.22^**	p < .10
Part-time	1.56^***	1.45^***	1.86^*	NS
Childhood locale^b
Medium city	1.38^þ	1.60	1.24	NS
Small city/town/rural	1.24	1.21	1.37	NS
Exp. childhood poverty	1.55^***	1.77^***	1.29	NS
Mother’s education^b
Less than high school	1.06	1.36	0.68	NS
Attended college	1.37^þ	1.43	1.13	NS
Unknown	0.61^*	0.75	0.34	NS
Parent incarcerated	0.95	0.65^*	1.70	p < .05
Sibling incarcerated	0.97	1.12	0.80	NS
Uncle/aunt incarcerated	1.13	1.24	0.97	NS
Cousin incarcerated	1.00	0.89	1.20	NS
Pseudo-R²	0.06	0.05	0.07
n	1,024	719	305

Note. NS = not significant.

Significance test for difference between Whites and Blacks.

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

^þ

p < .10.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.