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Lethal violence and religion : institutional and denominational effects on homicide and suicides in U.S. counties / Bryan K. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Bryan K., 1976- author.
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal Justice Recent Scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Religious aspects.
- Violence.
- Crime--Religious aspects.
- Crime.
- Homicide--United States.
- Homicide.
- Suicide--United States.
- Suicide.
- Crime--United States--Sociological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso, Texas : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Robinson uses sociological principles to examine the impact of community religiosity on county lethal violence rates. Testing both an integrated model and disaggregated models of lethal violence he finds evidence that religious homogeneity is a better predictor of lethal violence than either the rates of religious participation or the prevalence of religious institutions within a county. Moreover, he finds evidence that the presence of different conservative Christian denominations impact community violence in different ways. Specifically, the prevalence of Pentecostal, fundamentalist and evangelical Protestants in counties have different effects on suicide and homicide rates and should be examined independently.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781593327996
- 1593327994
- OCLC:
- 900725294
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