[Virginia-American]

Crime stats by religions

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In "The New Criminology," Max D. Schlapp and Edward E. Smith say that two generations of statisticians found that the ratio of convicts without religious training is about one-tenth of one percent. W.T. Root, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, examined 1,916 prisoners and said, "Indifference to religion, due to thought, strengthens character," adding that Unitarians, Agnostics, Atheists and Free-Thinkers were absent from penitentiaries, or nearly so.

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In "The New Criminology," Max D. Schlapp and Edward E. Smith say that two generations of statisticians found that the ratio of convicts without religious training is about one-tenth of one percent.

Which is likely the percentage of the population in general without religious training.

In the East, over 64 percent of inmates are Roman Catholic. Throughout the national prison population, they average 50 percent.

It sounds bogus. 65 percent of U.S. prison population is black.

Relatively few blacks are Catholics.