Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony

The Good, the Bad, and the Curvilinear. Revisiting the Relationship Between Religiosity and Delinquency

The delinquency-reducing function of religiosity is a repeatedly found pattern in criminology. We test a curvilinear alternative, hypothesizing that religiosity and delinquency are negatively related only up to a moderate level of religiosity, after which the relationship reverse...