Hellfire and Delinquency Revisited*
作者:
Paul C. Higgins,
Gary L. Albrecht,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1977)
卷期:
Volume 55,
issue 4
页码: 952-958
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1977
DOI:10.1093/sf/55.4.952
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
While Hirschi and Stark conclude that religiosity is unrelated to delinquency, their findings and a replication of their study in the Pacific Northwest (Burkett and White) may not be generalizable to other areas of the country. Using self-report data from 1,383 Atlanta tenth graders in 1970, we found a moderate negative relationship between church attendance and delinquent behavior. Our data also suggest a causal structure in which respect for the juvenile court system links church attendance with delinquency. We suspect that church attendance may be a truer reflection of adolescents' religious experience in the South than the West, so accounting for the differences between our findings and those of previous research.
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