Religion as Context: Hellfire and Delinquency One More Time

Stark, Rodney

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Religion as Context: Hellfire and Delinquency One More Time

Stark, Rodney·1996·Sociology of Religion

DOI 10.2307/3711948

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More than 10 years ago the author proposed a contextual-interactional explanation of the fact that research done on the West Coast fails to find a relationship between religious commitment and delinquency, while studies done elsewhere invariably find a strong negatit)e correlation. Unfortunately, because of various deficiencies, subsequent studies that claimed to test the contextual explanation have not done so-leaving the literature more confused than ever. In an effort to clarify matters, this paper carefully restates the contextual thee and then tests it on data from a ve7y large survey of high school seniors. The results demonstrate the erastence of a very potent contextual effect.

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Of the 60 delinquency/crime studies with quality ratings of 7 or higher, 49 (82%) reported inverse relationships and only one study found a positive relationship.
“Of the 60 studies with quality ratings of 7 or higher, 49 (82%) reported inverse relationships [240–252] and only one study found a positive relationship [253].”
From Religion, Spirituality, and Health: The Research and Clinical Implications (2012) · cites this paper as [240]
The full effect of religiosity on crime will be felt only in areas marked by a relatively high level of aggregate religiosity.
“Herein the full effect of religiosity on crime will be felt only in areas that are marked by a relatively high level of aggregate religiosity.”
From The Effect of Religiosity on Tax Fraud Acceptability: A Cross‐National Analysis (2006) · cites this paper as Stark 1996
The overwhelming majority of studies fail to test the moral communities hypothesis.
“First, the overwhelming majority of studies fail to test the moral communities hypothesis that holds that individual-level religiosity will have the strongest effect on deviance when individual-level religiosity is reinforced by a high level of religiosity in the community (Baier and Wright 2001;Regnerus 2003;Stark 1996).”
From The Effect of Religiosity on Tax Fraud Acceptability: A Cross‐National Analysis (2006) · cites this paper as Stark 1996
The first measure of a moral community is based on the religious heterogeneity meaning of moral community (Stark 1996). This is simply whether a nation has at least 50 percent of its population affiliating with any religion.
“The first measure of a moral community is based on the religious heterogeneity meaning of moral community (Stark 1996).This is simply whether a nation has at least 50 percent of its population affiliating with any religion.”
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Authors: Stark, R.
Affiliations: University of Washington (US)
Corresponding author: Stark, Rodney
Venue: Sociology of Religion
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 1996
Volume: 57
Issue: 2
Pages: 163
ISSN: 1069-4404 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.2307/3711948
OpenAlex: W2163430099
Cited by: 449
References: 10
Citations by year: 2026: 4 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 21
FWCI: 8.31
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Sociology of Religion (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
Keywords: religious commitment, delinquency, hellfire, contextual effects, high school seniors, juvenile delinquency

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