UNITED STATES
Stop Baptist Predators
Thanks to BaptistPlanet, these two eye-opening studies were recently brought to my attention.
1. In Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, a study examined “associations between self-reported religious affiliations and official offense histories among 111 incarcerated adult male sexual offenders. Four categories of religiosity were devised according to self-reported continuities and discontinuities in life-course religious affiliations: atheists, dropouts, converts, and stayers. . . . Stayers (those who maintained religious involvement from childhood to adulthood) had more sexual offense convictions, more victims, and younger victims, than other groups. Results challenge assumptions that religious involvement should, as with other crime, serve to deter sexual offending behavior.”
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