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ABSTRACT
The present study consists of random sampies from two publie schools in the innercity of a large metropolitan area on the East coast, involving 3 60 adolescents, and random sampies from three rural publie high schools in a state in the South involving 477 adolescents. The purpose of the study is to testgen eralizations found in the literature about whether: (a) church attendance is an adequate measure of the effects of religion on delinquency, (b) religion is related to more serious offenses like crimes against prop erty and persons, (c) church at ten dance or religiosity are related to crime among adolescents when the effects of major predietors are controlled, and, (d) the effects of religiosity are moderated by region of residence.
The findings show that religiosity rather than church at tendance is significantly re lated to crime, and the former remains a significant predictor even it is analyzed simultaneously with thes trongest predietor observed in the literature. Finally, the effects of religiosity are not moderated by region of residence (i.e.,the effects of religiosity have a significant inverse relationship to crime on the East coast as well as in the South). The implications of these find ings are dis cussed.
