Table 1.
Predicting Violent and Nonviolent Offending among Females with Histories of Childhood Abuse and Neglect and Matched Controls
| Arrest for a violent crime | Arrest for a nonviolent crime | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total, N | N (%) | AOR | 95% CI | Pseudo R2 | N (%) | AOR | 95% CI | Pseudo R2 | |
| Control | 244 | 16 (6.56) | 56 (22.95) | ||||||
| Child abuse and neglect | 338 | 47 (13.91) | 3.00** | [1.61–5.57] | 0.12 | 113 (33.43) | 1.99*** | 1.35–2.92 | 0.04 |
| Physical abuse | 47 | 8 (17.02) | 3.73** | [1.41–9.84] | 0.07 | 15 (31.91) | 1.94 | 0.95–3.99 | 0.02 |
| Sexual abuse | 76 | 10 (13.16) | 2.72* | [1.12–6.62] | 0.08 | 24 (31.56) | 1.84* | 1.02–3.33 | 0.02 |
| Neglect | 257 | 35 (13.62) | 3.08** | [1.60–5.93] | 0.13 | 92 (35.80) | 2.23*** | 1.48–3.35 | 0.06 |
*
p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.
AOR, adjusted odds ratio with controls for age and race; CI, confidence interval; Pseudo R2, Nagelkerke pseudo R-square reflects the proportion of variance in the dependent variable explained by the model.