TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - The relevance of social and cultural contexts: Religiosity, acculturation and delinquency among Korean Catholic adolescents in Southern California
JO  - Social science journal
A1  - Lee, Gang
A1  - Yim, Kisun
A1  - Curry, Theodore
A1  - Rodriguez, S. Fernando
SP  - 537
EP  - 544
VL  - 49
IS  - 4
N2  - Although research shows an inverse relationship between religiosity and delinquency, this association is not well understood. Scholars have attempted to explicate these findings in a number of ways, including arguments that: (1) the religiosity-delinquency relationship is limited to certain types of delinquency, (2) other theoretical variables explain or interpret the relationship, and (3) the relationship is stronger in the context of what are termed moral communities. We address these issues using a sample of Korean-American adolescents attending Catholic Sunday school. Within this relatively homogeneous moral community, one religiosity measure demonstrates an initial inverse association with three different delinquency measures, but the inclusion of control variables renders this relationship spurious. Additional results show that acculturation increases delinquency as well as interacts with religiosity to influence delinquency. (C) 2012 Western Social Science Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0362-3319
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2012.06.001
ID  - ref1
ER  -