Religiosity, Crime, and Drug Use Among Juvenile Offenders: A Latent Growth Modeling Approach

This study tests whether a juvenile offender's religious involvement or religiosity is inversely related to crime (i.e., non-drug offending) and use of licit and illicit drug when their trajectories are examined. It also tests whether the relationships are attributable in part to psychosocial c...

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Published in:Journal of quantitative criminology
Main Author: Jang, Sung Joon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: HeinOnline 2019
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Further subjects:B Juvenile Offender
B Latent growth modeling
B Crime
B Religiosity
B Drug use
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Summary:This study tests whether a juvenile offender's religious involvement or religiosity is inversely related to crime (i.e., non-drug offending) and use of licit and illicit drug when their trajectories are examined. It also tests whether the relationships are attributable in part to psychosocial correlates of religiosity as well as crime and drug use.
ISSN:1573-7799
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of quantitative criminology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10940-017-9369-2