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Religion, Delinquency, And Drug Use: A Meta-Analysis, P. Elizabeth Kelly, Joshua R. Polanin, Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson Jan 2015

Religion, Delinquency, And Drug Use: A Meta-Analysis, P. Elizabeth Kelly, Joshua R. Polanin, Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson

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Contemporary research on adolescent involvement in religion and delinquency is generally traced to Hirschi and Stark’s 1969 study, titled ‘‘Hellfire and Delinquency.’’ Their study surprised many by reporting no significant relationship between religious involvement and delinquency. Subsequent replications provided mixed results, but multiple reviews, both traditional and systematic, found religious involvement to be inversely related to delinquency. However, meta-analysis of the relationship remains scant with only three studies published to date. To address this research need, we conducted a meta-analysis of 62 relevant studies over four decades, which provided 145 effect sizes from 193,656 adolescents. We examined six bivariate correlations …