Ulmer Jeffery T, Harris Casey T
The Pennsylvania State University Department of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice 211 Oswald Tower University Park, PA 16802.
University of Arkansas Department of Sociology 211 Old Main Fayetteville, AR 72701
Sociol Q. 2013;54(4):610-646. doi: 10.1111/tsq.12034.
Research has demonstrated that concentrated disadvantage and other measures are strongly associated with aggregate-level rates of violence, including across racial and ethnic groups. Less studied is the impact of cultural factors, including religious contextual measures. The current study addresses several key gaps in prior literature by utilizing race/ethnic-specific arrest data from California, New York, and Texas paired with religious contextual data from the Religious Congregations and Memberships Survey (RCMS). Results suggest that, net of important controls, (1) religious contextual measures have significant crime-reducing associations with violence, (2) these associations are race/ethnic-specific, and (3) religious contextual measures moderate the criminogenic association between disadvantage and violence for Blacks. Implications for future research are discussed.
研究表明，高度集中的劣势及其他因素与总体暴力发生率密切相关，包括不同种族和族裔群体。文化因素的影响，包括宗教背景因素，研究较少。本研究通过利用加利福尼亚州、纽约州和得克萨斯州按种族/族裔分类的逮捕数据，并结合宗教团体与成员调查（RCMS）中的宗教背景数据，填补了先前文献中的几个关键空白。结果表明，在排除重要控制因素后，（1）宗教背景因素与暴力行为存在显著的减少犯罪关联，（2）这些关联因种族/族裔而异，（3）宗教背景因素缓和了黑人劣势与暴力行为之间的犯罪ogenic关联。文中还讨论了对未来研究的启示。
