RS <Which other studies?>
You'll find numerous references in Wilson and Herrnstein, Crime and Human
Nature (1985); and Van Ness, Crime and its Victims (1986). The most impressive
of study, IMO, is Stark, et al., "Rediscovering Moral Communities: Church
Membership and Crime," in Understanding Crime: Current Theory and Research
(1980). Dr. David Larson also conducted extensive research for the National
Institute of Mental Health on the reduction of deliquency due to religious
involvement (see Van Ness, p. 151). See also Stack and Kanavy, "The Effect of
Religion on Forcible Rape," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religon 22,
no. 1 (1983); Cannon, "Crime and the Decline of Values," Southwestern Judicial
Conference (1981); Stark, Religion and Deliquency (1979); Cancellaro,
"Religious Life of Narcotics Addicts," Southwestern Medical Journal 73, no. 6
(1980).