Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics
From: Correlates of conduct disorder among inmates of a Nigerian Borstal Institution
Characteristic | Mean (SD) |
|---|---|
Age (in years) | 17.1 (1.1) |
Age range | 14–18 years |
n (%) | |
|---|---|
Ethnicity | 147 (100) |
Yoruba | 114 (77.6) |
Hausa | 5 (3.4) |
Ibo | 27 (18.4) |
Other | 1 (0.4) |
Type of religion | 147 (100) |
African traditional religion | 1 (0.7) |
Christianity | 87 (59.2) |
Islam | 59 (40.1) |
Frequency of religious participation | 147 (100) |
Rarely or never | 86 (58.5) |
Often or regularly | 61 (41.5) |
Educational level | 147 (100) |
No formal education | 6 (4.1) |
Primary education | 53 (36.1) |
Junior secondary | 51 (34.7) |
Senior secondary | 37 (25.2) |
No of siblings | 147 (100) |
Small (four or less) | 56 (38.1) |
Large (five or more) | 91 (61.9) |
Who brought you up? | 147 (100) |
Single parent or relative | 121 (82.3) |
Both parents | 26 (17.7) |
Age (years) at parental separation/divorce/death | 121 (100) |
Less than five | 92 (76.0) |
Five and above | 29 (24.0) |
Family settings | 147 (100) |
Monogamous | 57 (38.8) |
Polygamous | 90 (61.2) |
Marital status (if both parent are alive) | 96 (100) |
Married and living together | 26 (27.1) |
Married but not living together | 7 (7.3) |
Separated or divorced | 63 (65.5) |
Reason/s for being incarcerated | 147 (100) |
Offender | 97 (66.0) |
Non-offender | 50 (34.0) |
History of previous remand | 147 (100) |
No | 111 (75.5) |
Yes | 36 (24.5) |
Duration of stay in weeks (months) | 147 (100) |
<12 | 67 (45.6) |
12–24 | 76 (51.7) |
>24 | 4 (2.7) |
Prevalence of conduct disorder (CD) | |
Conduct disorder (CD) | 147 (100) |
CD present | 83 (56.5) |
CD absent | 64 (43.5) |