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In reply to the discussion: No Time For Crime: More Religious Communities Have Lower Rates Of Black, White and Latino Violence [View all]Jim__
(14,120 posts)41. Yes, you are.
First, citing federal inmate religious statistics to show that religion doesn't inhibit crime - specifically violent crime - is comparing apples to oranges. You did that.
Second, do you have full access to both studies? The study you cited, the excerpt you cited, does not talk about race/ethnicity, Ulmer and Harris specifically looked at that:
The current study addresses several key gaps in prior literature by utilizing race/ethnic-specific arrest data from California, New York, and Texas paired with religious contextual data from the Religious Congregations and Memberships Survey.
Does your study specifically look at race ethnicity? If so, does it look at it in the same way that Ulmer Harris do?
They also refer to gaps in prior literature. Did they look at the study you cite or any study that incorporated its results? I would be quite surprised if Ulmer and Harris did not look at the study that you cite, or at least studies that were derived from it as part of the prior literature that they refer to.
Again, you don't have enough information to critize this study, never mind claim that it's wrong.
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No Time For Crime: More Religious Communities Have Lower Rates Of Black, White and Latino Violence [View all]
cbayer
Dec 2013
OP
Do they identity as religious once they are arrested and incarcerated or before that?
cbayer
Dec 2013
#4
So when compared with other countries that are similar in other major socioeconomic factors,
trotsky
Dec 2013
#7
I believe what you're asking was never actually a claim made by the person you're replying to.
eqfan592
Dec 2013
#24
What is the source for your claim that the 0.07% includes unaffiliated believers?
Jim__
Dec 2013
#33
First, you're trying to compare apples and oranges without full access to either.
Jim__
Dec 2013
#38
If you're going to continue stuffing words in my mouth, this is going to get rather pointless
Act_of_Reparation
Dec 2013
#44
Interestingly, if you look at previous studies published by this David Briggs fellow...
trotsky
Dec 2013
#17
...his results are internally consistent, so he must be doctoring them?
Donald Ian Rankin
Dec 2013
#18