This meta-analysis explores the long-standing and heavily debated question of whether
religiosity is associated with prosocial and antisocial behavior at the individual level. In an …

The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several
decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical …

Objectives: Criminologists have long viewed morality as a critical element in offending.
However, two factors limit the theoretical impact of prior work. First, no overarching …

Deterrence describes a process in which perceived risks and rewards influence offending
decisions, whereas deterrability refers to the capacity or inclination to engage in this …

While discussion of religiosity and delinquency has garnered attention in the past few
decades, few studies have focused on how religiosity influences rates of delinquency …

The objective of this research is to present the meta-analysis results of the relationship of
social norms and religiosity with tax evasion, with national culture as a moderating variable …

A cursory inquest into the effects of SARS-CoV-2 exposes how easily the ramification of the
pandemic has moved over from the physio-social to the psychosocial state of humans all …

Although religion and crime occupies a relatively small space in contemporary
criminological research, religious beliefs, and practices are central to classical social theory …

We examined cross‐national variation in the gender differential in offending, which is often
referred to as the gender gap in crime. Analyses were directed toward two empirical …

This paper provides a review of the literature that assesses the relationship between religion
and crime. Research on the relationship between religion and crime indicates that certain …