so i dont know about that whole, okps dont like... ish


but... this is not study results (i even went to the website)
this is a description of... i dont know.. things done and said
but there are no numbers, no description of sample design, no description of analysis,
even if it was a systematic review, there is nothing on here to go by
except what this dude byron is saying and hes not saying anything (where.is.the.data?)

>If okps don't like te study result, the science is no good...
>But here you go.
>
>http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=837
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>Give me that Old Time Religion…to reduce crime
>By Dr. Jeff Mirus (bio - articles - email) | Jul 27, 2011
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>Sociologist Byron Johnson has marshaled conclusive evidence
>that Church attendance is associated with reduced crime and
>delinquency. Johnson, who is Distinguished Professor of the
>Social Sciences at Baylor University, summarized his findings
>in an article entitled “The Religious Antidote” (First
>Things, August/September 2011).
>
>Byron has both conducted studies himself and reviewed the
>studies of others. An early study (1986) by Richard Freeman
>examined housing projects in several major cities to determine
>factors that helped kids stay out of trouble. Religious faith
>was a key factor. Byron, working with several colleagues,
>replicated Freeman’s study in the late 1990’s, with the
>same result: The frequency of attending religious services was
>inversely related to the likelihood of young, poor, black
>males selling illegal drugs or otherwise breaking the law. The
>differences in getting into legal trouble between those who
>attended church and those who did not were on the order of 40
>to 60 percent.
>
>In 2000, Byron reviewed forty studies on the relationship
>between religion and delinquency, with similar results. The
>same was true of a review of sixty studies by Colin Baier and
>Bradley Wright in 2001, which further demonstrated that the
>inverse relationship between church attendance and delinquent
>behavior increased as studies grew larger and more
>comprehensive.
>
>Very recently, Byron completed the most exhaustive systematic
>review to date, analyzing 273 studies published between 1944
>and 2010 in a variety of fields. He found that 90% of the
>studies “report an inverse or beneficial relationship
>between religion and some measure of crime or delinquency.”
>Only 9 percent found no association, and only two studies
>(less than 1%) found the opposite relationship.
>
>Professor Byron began his article by noting that if the
>studies generally showed the opposite—that religion or
>church-going contributed to crime and delinquency—the press
>would be all over the story, and a Federal commission would
>doubtless be established to make sure Americans were
>officially notified that religious practice is deleterious to
>your social health.
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