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Table 3 Family psychosocial characteristics and criminality (all crimes) among females, adjusting for individual problems.

From: Family psychosocial characteristics influencing criminal behaviour and mortality - possible mediating factors: a longitudinal study of male and female subjects in the Stockholm Birth Cohort

 

All crimes (1966-1980)

 

Crudea

(95% CI)

Model 1b

(95% CI)

Model 2c

(95% CI)

Model 3d

(95% CI)

Model 4e

(95% CI)

Model 5f

(95% CI)

PAF

Adverse family psychosocial characteristics

       

Father's criminality (1953-1959)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

2.52 (1.75-3.61)

1.83 (1.25-2.69)

1.71 (1.17-2.52)

1.31 (0.83-2.05)

1.68 (1.12-2.50)

1.32 (0.84-2.07)

-0.42%

Father's alcohol abuse (1953-1965)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

3.59 (2.53-5.10)

2.69 (1.84-3.93)

2.51 (1.72-3.67)

2.08 (1.34-3.21)

2.39 (1.61-3.54)

2.06 (1.32-3.20)

-0.83%

Parents' mental problems (1953-1965)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

2.45 (1.74-3.46)

1.84 (1.28-2.65)

1.70 (1.18-2.46)

1.43 (0.94-2.17)

1.49 (1.01-2.19)

1.40 (0.92-2.13)

-0.54%

Father's occupational class (1963)

       

Upper and upper middle class (ref.)

1.00

 

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Middle class

0.97 (0.72-1.32)

 

0.92 (0.68-1.25)

0.79 (0.57-1.08)

0.90 (0.66-1.22)

0.80 (0.58-1.10)

 

Working class

1.69 (1.27-2.26)

 

1.50 (1.11-2.01)

1.24 (0.91-1.69)

1.39 (1.03-1.87)

1.24 (0.91-1.68)

 

Others

2.31 (1.33-4.02)

 

1.74 (0.99-3.07)

1.54 (0.83-2.84)

1.71 (0.96-3.05)

1.54 (0.83-2.85)

-0.33%

Individual problems

       

Alcohol and/or drug use (1966-1972)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

  

1.00

 

1.00

 

Yes

33.1 (24.0-45.7)

  

29.2 (21.0-40.6)

 

22.9 (15.9-33.1)

-2.85%

Mental problems (1966-1972)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

   

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

18.9 (12.4-28.8)

   

15.6 (10.1-24.0)

2.30 (1.28-4.13)

-0.41%

  1. Odds ratios from logistic regression analysis (n = 6,989).
  2. a No adjustment, b Mutual adjustment for family psychosocial characteristics, c Mutual adjustment for family psychosocial characteristics + father's occupational class, d Mutual adjustment for family psychosocial characteristics + father's occupational class + individual's alcohol and/or drug use, e Mutual adjustment for family psychosocial characteristics + father's occupational class + individual's mental problems, f Mutual adjustment for all variables