The ‘Invisible Institution’ and Black Youth Crime: The Church as an Agency of Local Social Control
By Byron R. Johnson, S. Jang, S. Li, D. Larson. 2000
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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health
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- Strain, Negative Emotions, and Deviant Coping Among African Americans: A Test of General Strain Theory (2003, background): “The present finding of significant buffering effects is consistent with what previous studies report about the role of religiosity as a protective factor (Hettler and Cohen, 1998; Jang and Johnson, 2001; Johnson et al., 2000; Piquero and Sealock, 2000).”
- Explaining Religious Effects on Distress Among African Americans (2004, background): “In addition, throughout American history, religious institutions (especially black churches) have been an important agency of social organization among African Americans (Ellison 1993; Johnson et al. 2000).”
- Christian Religiosity, Self-Control and Social Conformity (2006, unknown): “Still others maintain that religious experience brings people together within networks of believers who mutually exercise informal social control and whose collective activities reduce the opportunities for misbehavior (Stark and Bainbridge 1996; Johnson et al. 2000).”