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Is it true that Atheists have lower crime rates than theists in general or Christians in particular?
Poiuy18
It is true that the percentage of Atheists in jail is lower that that of Christians, but that does not reflect crime rates.
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This question would require a review of the studies leading to the conclusion. Studies of this nature are generally flawed by poor data and procedures. Definitions of terms like crimes, atheist, theist, Christian are generally pretty loose. The questions use to support the are often not well thought out. The Demographics of the study group are excluded. The processes used for data examination are not revealled.
In addition groups wishiing to use the data usually have apurpose in mind and set out to find data that supports their point of view. While it is true that there are more religious people in prison than atheists, this is a single statistic and can not be used to draw useful conclusions. Numerous polls have shown that the more intelligent and/or educated a person is, the more likely they are to be atheist.
More intelligent people with a better education tend (when they commit crimes) to commit white collar crimes (such as stealing from work, fraud, tax evasion etc). These are generally harder to detect than (say) a mugging, and therefore the crimminal has a better chance of getting away with it.
It is also true that religion attracts desperate people, and offers them comfort. People who are desperate are, therefore, more likely both to commit a crime and to be religious than people who are not desperate.
These factors could partially or completely explain the statistic. It's difficult to evaluate the amount of undetected crime, and who may have committed it: so there is a lot of data missing from the obvious facts of the prison population.
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