Lethal violence and religion : institutional and denominational effects on homicide and suicides in U.S. counties /

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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 rat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robinson, Bryan K., 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2015.
Colección:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Violence > Religious aspects.
Crime > Religious aspects.
Homicide > United States.
Suicide > United States.
Crime > United States > Sociological aspects.
Violence > Aspect religieux.
Suicide > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime > Religious aspects
Crime > Sociological aspects
Homicide
Suicide
Violence > Religious aspects
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 evan.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781593327996
1593327994

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