Byron R. Johnson

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reexamine the relevance of religiosity to the etiology of delinquency, given the inconsistent and inconclusive evidence found in the literature, and find some evidence of bidirectional causal relationships between religiosity and other predictors of delinquent behavior.

TL;DR: The authors found that negative emotions have consistently significant effects on deviance, regardless of whether they use composite or separate measures of inner-and outer-directed emotions and deviance and the same-directed effects of negative emotions on deviant coping are larger than the opposite-directed ones.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the religion-delinquency literature by using a methodological approach to reviewing a body of literature that is new to the social sciences, and find that the literature is not disparate or contradictory, as previous studies have suggested.

TL;DR: It is found that neighborhood disorder and religiosity have hypothesized effects on illicit drug use independent of social bonding and social learning variables that partly mediate the effects.

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between religious involvement and intimate partner violence by analyzing data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households and found that religious involvement is correlated with reduced levels of domestic violence, and this protective effect is stronger for African American men and women and for Hispanic men.