TABLE 1.
Participant demographics and socioeconomic characteristics
| Characteristic | N = 184 |
|---|---|
| Age (years) | 39.3 ± 10.4a |
| Range = 20–61 | |
| Gender | |
| Man | 118 (64.1%)a |
| Woman | 66 (35.9%) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Hispanic | 34 (18.6%) |
| Non-Hispanic | 149 (81.4%) |
| Raceb | |
| White | 116 (63.0%) |
| African American or Black | 42 (22.8%) |
| Native-American/Alaskan | 10 (5.4%) |
| Asian | 2 (1.1%) |
| Other | 24 (13.0%) |
| Marital status | |
| Never married | 110 (59.8%) |
| Married or living with a partner | 22 (15.2%) |
| Separated | 7 (3.8%) |
| Divorced or annulled | 36 (19.6%) |
| Widowed | 3 (1.6%) |
| Employment status before incarceration | |
| Not employed | 81 (44.3%) |
| Employed | 102 (55.7%) |
| Time served on current sentence (in months) | Median = 31 (range = 1–489) |
| Life sentence | 27 (15%) |
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.
a
Mean ± SD (standard deviation) or n (%).
b
Percentages do not add up to 100 as participants identified as more than one race.