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Religioznost i delinkventnost: istraživački rezultati na populaciji mariborskih studenata
Religiosity and Delinquency: Research Results on the Population of Maribor University Undergraduates

Author(s): Sergej Flere
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between religiosity and delinquency is studied on a survey sample (1200) of Maribor university undergraduates (2003). Ensuing from the Hirschi and Stark assertion (1969) as to a lack of link between religiosity and delinquency, as well as from the transformation of religiosity during post-modernity in a relativistic direction, it was supposed that there would be no link between religiosity and delinquency. This was rejected in this study by a finding of significant variation in the odds ratio as to committing delinquent acts among those who are intensively religious and those who are not religious at all. It was found that personal religiosity does have a definite˙(...)

  • Issue Year: 14/2005
  • Issue No: 77
  • Page Range: 531-544
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Croatian