Table 2 Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the groups
Sex crime against children (n = 91) | Property crime (n = 25) | Crime against the person (n = 51) | F/Kruskal–Wallis H test | p-value | Post-hoc comparison | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | Mean (SD; range) | n (%) | Mean (SD; range) | n (%) | Mean (SD; range) | ||||
Age (years) | 48.78 (13.23; 22–75) | 39.40 (9.30; 26–55) | 42.53 (10.85; 21–81) | 8.15 | < 0.001 | Sex child crime > property crime = crime against the person | |||
Gender | 51.51 | < .001 | Sex child crime > crime against the person > property crime | ||||||
Men | 88 (96.70) | 9 (36) | 42 (82.40) | ||||||
Women | 3 (3.30) | 16 (64) | 9 (17.60) | ||||||
Psychiatric comorbidity | 64.93 | < 0.001 | Crime against the person > property crime > sex child crime | ||||||
No | 84 (92.30) | 12 (48) | 14 (27.50) | ||||||
Yes | 7 (7.70) | 13 (52) | 37 (72.50) | ||||||
Type of psychiatric comorbidity | |||||||||
Unipolar depressive disorders | 3 (3.30) | 1 (4) | 1 (2) | ||||||
Bipolar disorders | 1 (1.10) | 2 (8) | 6 (11.80) | ||||||
Psychotic disorders | 2 (2.20) | 0 | 25 (49) | ||||||
Substance abuse disorder | 0 | 7 (28) | 2 (3.90) | ||||||
Personality disorders | 1 (1.10) | 3 (12) | 3 (5.90) | ||||||
Psychopathy traits (PCL-R > 25) | 0.20 | 0.90 | |||||||
Yes | 10 (11) | 2 (8) | 5 (9.80) | ||||||
No | 81 (89) | 23 (92) | 46 (90.20) | ||||||