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Table 2 Family psychosocial characteristics and criminality (all crimes) among males, 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

Family psychosocial characteristics

       

Father's criminality (1953-1959)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

2.10 (1.63-2.71)

1.70 (1.30-1.21)

1.53 (1.17-1.99)

1.41 (1.07-1.86)

1.54 (1.17-2.01)

1.42 (1.08-1.88)

-2.05%

Father's alcohol abuse (1953-1965)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

3.03 (2.33-3.93)

2.41 (1.83-3.16)

2.06 (1.56-2.71)

1.84 (1.38-2.47)

1.93 (1.45-2.56)

1.77 (1.32-2.37)

-2.96%

Parents' mental problems (1953-1965)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

2.12 (1.71-2.62)

1.77 (1.42-2.20)

1.56 (1.25-1.95)

1.48 (1.17-1.86)

1.43 (1.13-1.79)

1.40 (1.10-1.77)

-2.89%

Father's occupational class (1963)

       

Upper and upper middle class (ref.)

1.00

 

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 

Middle class

1.58 (1.35-1.85)

 

1.53 (1.30-1.79)

1.47 (1.25-1.73)

1.52 (1.29-1.78)

1.47 (1.25-1.73)

 

Working class

2.45 (2.09-2.87)

 

2.26 (1.93-2.65)

2.08 (1.76-2.45)

2.23 (1.90-2.62)

2.08 (1.77-2.45)

 

Others

3.39 (2.51-4.57)

 

2.73 (2.01-3.71)

2.63 (1.92-3.60)

2.64 (7.28-18.2)

2.56 (1.87-3.52)

-1.85%

Individual problems

       

Alcohol and/or drug use (1966-1972)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

  

1.00

 

1.00

 

Yes

22.3 (15.5-32.3)

  

19.5 (13.5-28.2)

 

15.2 (10.5-22.2)

-17.5%

Mental problems (1966-1972)

       

No (ref.)

1.00

   

1.00

1.00

 

Yes

13.5 (8.55-21.2)

   

11.5 (7.28-18.2)

4.66 (2.82-7.72)

-4.53%

  1. Odds ratios from logistic regression analysis (n = 7,305).
  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