“If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments”: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Religion on Crime

By Colin J. Baier, Bradley E. Wright. 2001

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Subfields: Health, Pharmacology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. Byron R. Johnson
2. S. Jang
3. B. Willoughby
4. John F. Frana
5. Ryan D. Schroeder
6. M. McCullough
7. P. Kelly
8. J. Polanin

In Pharmacology

1. Michael Perreyclear
2. T. P. O'connor
3. S. Jang
4. John F. Frana
5. P. Kelly
6. Byron R. Johnson
7. Mark Regnerus
8. J. Polanin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. John F. Frana
2. S. Jang
3. Ryan D. Schroeder
4. Byron R. Johnson
5. B. Willoughby
6. M. McCullough
7. J. Polanin
8. P. Kelly

Citations in the corpus

• SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION, EMOTIONAL COPING, AND CRIMINAL DESISTANCE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF MEN UNDERGOING CHANGE (2009, background): “In their synthesis of 60 studies of the impact of religion on crime, Baier and Wright ( 2001 ) report that the average effect size of religion on crime is r  = −0.”
• Religion, Delinquency, and Drug Use (2015, methodology): “Second, since Baier and Wright (2001) reported no significant difference between behavioral and attitudinal measures of religious involvement in their effects on crime and delinquency, we conducted meta-analysis separately for the two different types of religious measures to see whether we can…”
• Testing Quasi-Causal Hypotheses Using Multivariate Twin Data (2013, unknown): “A meta-analysis of 60 studies concluded that there is a moderate negative relationship between religiosity and delinquency (Baier & Wright, 2001).”
• Linked Lives, Faith, and Behavior: Intergenerational Religious Influence on Adolescent Delinquency (2003, background): “Baier and Wright (2001) describe the religion/delinquency evidence as “ ... varied, contested, and inconclusive.””
• Prison Religion in Action and Its Influence on Offender Rehabilitation (2002, result): “In general, the reviews of the broader literature on religion and the prevalence of crime in the general community conclude that while most studies have found a significant inverse relationship between religious involvement and crime, the methodological weaknesses of these studies tend to make their”
• Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications. (2009, background): “…associations with measures of health, well-being, and social behavior, such as longevity (McCullough et al., 2000), depressive symptoms (Smith et al., 2003), marital functioning (Mahoney et al., 1999), crime and delinquency (Baier & Wright, 2001), and school achievement (Jeynes, 2002).”