Stansfield Richard, Mowen Thomas J
Rutgers University - Camden, 405-407 Cooper Street, Camden, NJ 08102, USA.
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.
J Quant Criminol. 2019 Sep;35(3):493-516. doi: 10.1007/s10940-018-9394-9. Epub 2018 Oct 9.
To examine the link between an individual's religious involvement in prison and recidivism and assess how macro-level conditions in the counties to which individuals return shape this relationship.
Using data from 1362 previously incarcerated people, a series of hierarchical generalized linear models are used to examine the extent to which an individual's religious involvement in prison relates to recidivism post-release. We also examine how county-level religious adherence, economic disadvantage, and potential social service assistance directly affect recidivism, and how each shape the relationship between religious involvement and recidivism.
Findings show that county-level religious adherence was directly associated with lower recidivism, but individual-level religious involvement was not when assessing recidivism over longer periods of time post-release. Cross-level interactions revealed that county-level resource deprivation conditions the effect of individual religious involvement.
Findings have theoretical implications for the study of religion and reentry. Methodologically, failing to account for the religious context of counties, in addition to micro-macro linkages, harms individual level research on religion and reentry.
研究个体在监狱中的宗教参与与累犯之间的联系，并评估个体返回的县的宏观层面状况如何塑造这种关系。
利用1362名曾被监禁者的数据，使用一系列分层广义线性模型来研究个体在监狱中的宗教参与与释放后累犯的相关程度。我们还研究了县级宗教信仰、经济劣势和潜在社会服务援助如何直接影响累犯，以及它们如何塑造宗教参与和累犯之间的关系。
研究结果表明，县级宗教信仰与较低的累犯率直接相关，但在评估释放后较长时间段的累犯情况时，个体层面的宗教参与并非如此。跨层次交互作用表明，县级资源匮乏影响个体宗教参与的效果。
研究结果对宗教与重新融入社会的研究具有理论意义。在方法上，除了微观-宏观联系外，未能考虑县的宗教背景会损害宗教与重新融入社会的个体层面研究。
