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

Table 1 Distribution of family psychosocial characteristics, individuals problems and mortality according to gender (n = 14,294).

	Males (n = 7,305)		Females (n = 6,989)
	n	%	n	%
Family psychosocial characteristics
Father's criminality (1953-1959)
No	7,058	96.6	6,732	96.3
Yes	247	3.4	257	3.7
Father's alcohol abuse (1953-1965)
No	7,066	96.7	6,769	96.9
Yes	239	3.3	220	3.1
Parents' mental problems (1953-1965)
No	6.944	95.1	6.697	95.8
Yes	361	4.9	292	4.2
Father's occupational class (1963)
Upper and upper middle class	1,215	16.6	1,184	16.9
Middle class	3,060	41.9	3,002	43.0
Working class	2,810	38.5	2,644	37.8
Others	220	3.0	159	2.3
Individual problems
Criminality - all crimes (1966-1980)
No	4,943	67.7	6,530	93.4
Yes	2,362	32.3	459	6.6
Criminality - violent crimes (1966-1980)
No	6,775	92.7	6,921	99.0
Yes	530	7.3	68	1.0
Criminality - non-violent crimes (1966-1980)
No	5,014	68.6	6,548	93.7
Yes	2,291	31.4	441	6.3
Alcohol and/or drug use (1966-1972)
No	6,973	95.5	6,807	97.4
Yes	332	4.5	182	2.6
Mental problems (1966-1972)
No	7,149	97.9	6.897	98.7
Yes	156	2.1	92	1.3
Mortality
Mortality (1981-2009)
No	6,861	93.9	6,742	96.5
Yes	444	6.1	247	3.5

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