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Table 2.

Descriptive Bivariate Statistics on the Extent of DSM-III-R Lifetime Psychiatric Disorders in Violent and Nonviolent Female Offenders and Nonoffenders (in Percent)

Psychiatric diagnosis	Violent offenders (N = 63)	Nonviolent offenders (N = 169)	Nonoffenders (N = 350)	Chi square
Posttraumatic stress disorder	51.61_^a	35.50_^b	32.86_^b	8.08^*
Alcohol abuse and/or dependence	50.79_^a	47.93_^a	32.86_^b	14.87^**
MDD	39.68	26.63	27.71	4.24
Drug abuse and/or dependence	38.10_^a	31.36_^a	21.84_^b	10.31^**
Dysthymia	25.40_^a	13.61_^b	13.43_^b	6.33^*

Subscript letters represent pairwise comparisons of column proportions for a given row. When two groups have different letters (a, b), they are significantly different (p < 0.05) from one another on that characteristic.

^{^*}

p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01.

DSM-III-R, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III-Revised; MDD, major depressive disorder.