"If you love me, keep my commandments": A meta-analysis of the effect of religion on crime

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-21

  Baier, C J ^a   Wright, B R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RELIGION; RESEARCH; SOCIOLOGY; THEORY;

EID: 0035181263     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427801038001001     Document Type: Article

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