Table 1.
Demographic and criminal features for the total sample and by groups
| Total sample (n = 217) | Youth placed in juvenile facilities (n = 122) | Youth receiving community-based programs (n = 95) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | t | p | |
| Age | 16.60 | 1.26 | 16.65 | 1.27 | 16.54 | 1.25 | 0.605 | 0.546 |
| Years of education | 6.19 | 1.55 | 5.96 | 1.43 | 6.48 | 1.64 | −2.506 | 0.013 |
| Repeated grade-level | 3.02 | 1.37 | 3.11 | 1.33 | 2.91 | 1.41 | 1.066 | 0.288 |
| Sentence length (in months) | 18.53 | 6.62 | 19.83 | 7.00 | 16.85 | 5.71 | – | – |
| n | % | n | % | n | % | χ2 | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age groups | ||||||||
| <18 years old | 155 | 71.4 | 63 | 76.8 | 76 | 66.7 | 2.86 | 0.091 |
| ≥18 years old | 61 | 28.1 | 18 | 22.0 | 38 | 33.3 | ||
| Socio-economic status | ||||||||
| Low | 139 | 81.1 | 103 | 84.4 | 73 | 76.2 | 2.005 | 0.157 |
| Medium | 56 | 18.9 | 19 | 15.6 | 22 | 23.2 | ||
| Type of crime | ||||||||
| Against people | 169 | 77.9 | 100 | 82.0 | 69 | 72.6 | 4.122 | 0.249 |
| Against property | 39 | 18.0 | 18 | 14.8 | 21 | 22.1 | ||
| Against life in society | 8 | 3.7 | 3 | 2.5 | 5 | 5.3 | ||
| Drug trafficking | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.8 | – | – | ||
Groups were not compared concerning sentence length. Crimes against life in society includes counterfeiting, forgery of documents and fire setting