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DEVELOPMENT OF A GUIDE TO RESOURCES ON FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Final Report
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The article was published on 2004-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Criminal justice & Faith-Based Organizations.read more
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With God on my side: The paradoxical relationship between religious belief and criminality among hardcore street offenders
TL;DR: This article found that many street offenders anticipate an early death, making them less prone to delay gratification, more likely to discount the future costs of crime, and thus more willing to offend.
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Faith-based efforts to improve prisoner reentry: Assessing the logic and evidence
TL;DR: In this article, critical questions about the nature and effects of faith-based reentry programs remain largely unaddressed, however: What is a "faith-based" program? How does or could such a program reduce recidivism and improve other behavioral outcomes among released offenders? What are critical implementation issues that may affect the operations and impacts of such programs?
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Assessing Intermediate Outcomes of a Faith-Based Residential Prisoner Reentry Program
TL;DR: This paper examined intermediate outcomes of a faith-based prisoner reentry program by assessing how client spirituality related to client-and program-level characteristics, and found that client spirituality was positively correlated with client-level and program level characteristics.
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More Religion, Less Crime? Science, Felonies, and the Three Faith Factors
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple algorithm for future social science research on crime and religion in relation to three different faith factors, three different species of religious nonprofit organizations, three categories of crime, and three different types of empirical research is presented.
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Valuing the Contribution of Urban Religious Congregations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from two studies in Philadelphia and Wilmington as well as numerous secondary sources to advance the study of valuing the contribution of local religious congregations.
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