Scott A Desmond
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 132964 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Scott A Desmond |
| PRENOMES | Scott A |
| SOBRENOME | Desmond |
| ASSINATURA | DESMOND S A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University – Purdue University Columbus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3648-8808 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 255 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
“Honesty is the Best Policy”
Measuring Religious Evil
Multiple-item indexes are ubiquitous within the sociology of religion. However, there are a growing number of articles in other disciplines that have advocated the use of single-item measures in specific circumstances. Using quantitative survey data taken from the United Kingdom, this article contributes to this literature by exploring the impact of single and multiple item measures of religious evil on a series of social and political attitudes.…
Exceptional Bodies' and Lived Religion
A paucity of research has examined the lived religious practices of women with terminal cancer. The purpose of this paper is to examine how women with metastatic breast cancer engage in religious and spiritual practices, both inside and outside traditional religious institutions. We utilize a two-stage Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Design consisting of a national online survey with 310 respondents and 33 follow-up interviews. Findings show…
Religion, future orientation, and subjective well-being among emerging adults
We hypothesise that religion is associated with how often emerging adults think about the future, which is then related to their greater subjective well-being. Based on a secondary analysis of the third wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), participation in organised religion is negatively related to thinking about the future, whereas religious efficacy and having religious friends are positively related to thinking about the f…
Religiosity and Secular and Ascetic Deviance
According to the antiascetic hypothesis, religiosity should be strongly related to behaviors that violate ascetic standards (getting drunk and using marijuana), but only weakly related to behaviors that violate social standards (violence and stealing). Using the second wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion, I tested the antiascetic hypothesis using a question about the most important basis for deciding what is morally right or wrong. C…
Sympathy for the Devil
Previous research suggests that religious service attendance, biblical literalism, images of God, and other measures of religion are related to moral beliefs (i.e., that certain behaviors are wrong or deviant). Given previous theory and research on spiritual appraisals (particularly demonization and desecration), we argue that belief in Satan should also predict moral beliefs. Using the first four waves of the Baylor Religion Survey, we tested th…
Working for God
Every Sinner Has a Future
Based on previous research, I hypothesize that religious adolescents living in the United States are more likely to have a future orientation (i.e., they are more likely to think about the future), which in turn contributes to their greater self-control. I also hypothesize that a future orientation and self-control mediate the effect of religious service attendance and importance of religion on adolescent marijuana use. Based on the second wave o…
Secrets and Lies
There is very little research on the relationship between adolescent religiosity and concealing information from parents, although research on religiosity and family life is plentiful. Therefore, I used the second wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion to examine the relationship between adolescent religiosity and lying to parents and keeping secrets from parents. The results suggest that adolescents who attend religious services more o…
“Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice”
Although previous research suggests that religion contributes to greater life satisfaction, there is still disagreement about what aspects of religion predict greater life satisfaction. Despite a growing body of theory and research on emerging adulthood as a life stage that is distinct from adolescence and young adulthood, there has also been limited research on the relationship between religion and life satisfaction among emerging adults. Based …
Being Thankful
The Effects of Importance of Religion and Church Attendance on Adolescents' Moral Beliefs
Drawing on the work of Emile Durkheim ([1912] 1995) and Rodney Stark (2001 Stark, Rodney. 2001. Gods, Rituals, and the Moral Order. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40(4): 619–636. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) as well as research on the anti-ascetic thesis and reference group theory, we formulate a series of hypotheses regarding the effects of church attendance and importance of religion on adolescents' moral be…
Religion, Self Control, and Substance Use
Previous research has examined a number of mechanisms through which religion might have an indirect influence on substance use. One potential intervening mechanism that has received little empirical attention is self control. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we (1) examine the association between religion and self control, (2) determine if self control mediates the effect of religiosity on substanc…
Religious Involvement and Dynamics of Marijuana Use
Studies that examine the effects of adolescent religiosity on the initiation of, persistence in, and desistence from delinquency are rare. Yet, religion may differentially affect dimensions of delinquency in the early life course. Therefore, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we examine the relationship between measures of adolescent religion, as well as changes in religious involvement, and later p…
Self-Control, Opportunity, and Substance Use
We examine the effect of self-control and opportunity on adolescent substance use. When theorizing about the role of opportunity, we believe the "sanction potential" of a given situation should be considered. Our results suggest the effect of self-control on substance use does not depend on the availability of substances in the home (high sanction potential), but friends' substance use (low sanction potential) conditions the effect of self-contro…
Religiosity, Peers, and Delinquency
Do peer influences have the same effect on religious and nonreligious youth, or does religiosity reduce the effect of peers on delinquency? Using data from the National Youth Survey, we examined the interaction of religiosity and peer influences on marijuana use, alcohol use, hitting, and property offenses. The results suggest that, for marijuana use and alcohol use, three measures of peer influence—peer attitudes, behaviors, and pressure—have we…
Religious Development
Researchers have argued for longitudinal studies that focus more attention on how religious attitudes and behaviors change during adolescence and, especially, as adolescents make the transition to young adulthood. Therefore, the authors use growth curve modeling to examine the infuence of parents and peers on adolescent religious service attendance and belief in the importance of religion using five waves (eight years) of the National Youth Surve…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Neighborhood Crime Rates Using Latent Growth Curve Modeling
Although social disorganization theory provides a framework for understanding how changes in neighborhoods can influence crime rates over time, research on neighborhood characteristics and crime has relied primarily on cross-sectional data. Using a latent growth curve model and longitudinal data on residential burglary and vehicle theft in Indianapolis, measured annually between 1992 and 2006 at the census block group level, the authors analyzed …
Congregations and Crime
Few studies have focused on how religious congregations are associated with crime rates, especially at the neighborhood level. Using data for more than 400 block groups in Indianapolis, we focus on the relationship between different types of congregations (e.g., evangelical Protestant, civically engaged) and eight different types of crime controlling for a variety of neighborhood characteristics. The results suggest that neighborhoods with more e…
The Power of Place
Despite popular assumptions, criminologists have long recognized that crime rates are lower for various immigrant groups than for similarly disadvantaged African Americans. What accounts for this paradox? In this study, we consider the role of neighborhood context, specifically, the concentration of immigrants within a community, as a protective factor responsible, in part, for lower crime rates among various immigrant groups. We use data from th…
Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence
Religiosity, Moral Beliefs, and Delinquency
Does the effect of religiosity on delinquent behavior depend on moral beliefs? For example, will religious adolescents refrain from using marijuana, even if they do not believe using marijuana is wrong? We addressed this question using data from the third and fourth waves of the National Youth Survey. The results indicated a significant interaction between religiosity and moral beliefs for marijuana use and getting drunk, but not for hitting or p…
Do as I Say and as I Do
Previous research suggests that when mothers and fathers belong to the same religious denomination and/or they are equally religious, they are better able to transmit their religious behaviors and attitudes to their children. Instead of focusing on religious consistency between parents, our research explores the effect of consistency between a parent's attitudes and behaviors. When parents send a consistent message to children regarding religion,…
Prioritizing Social Problems
ferent social problems in class, students inevitably disagree with one another and they also disagree with me. Usually the disagreements are mild and respectful, but sometimes they can become emotional and heated. I have developed an exercise to address this difference in attitudes and opinions early in the course and to set the stage for smoother discussions later. Although the exercise generates lively discussions and can be used to introduce s…
Juvenile Delinquency
WHAT IS DELINQUENCY AND HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM ADULT CRIME? We View Juvenile Delinquents Differently than Adult Criminals We Treat Juvenile Delinquents Differently than Adult Criminals Older, Serious Juvenile Offenders as an Exception How Can We Explain the Invention of Juvenile Delinquency? 2. HOW IS DELINQUENCY MEASURED? Official Statistics-Especially Arrest Data from the Police Self-Report Data Overcoming the Preceding Problems Victimization …
The Power of Place
Despite popular assumptions, criminologists have long recognized that crime rates are lower for various immigrant groups than for similarly disadvantaged African Americans. What accounts for this paradox? In this study, we consider the role of neighborhood context, specifically, the concentration of immigrants within a community, as a protective factor responsible, in part, for lower crime rates among various immigrant groups. We use data from th…
Religious Development
Researchers have argued for longitudinal studies that focus more attention on how religious attitudes and behaviors change during adolescence and, especially, as adolescents make the transition to young adulthood. Therefore, the authors use growth curve modeling to examine the infuence of parents and peers on adolescent religious service attendance and belief in the importance of religion using five waves (eight years) of the National Youth Surve…
Do as I Say and as I Do
Previous research suggests that when mothers and fathers belong to the same religious denomination and/or they are equally religious, they are better able to transmit their religious behaviors and attitudes to their children. Instead of focusing on religious consistency between parents, our research explores the effect of consistency between a parent's attitudes and behaviors. When parents send a consistent message to children regarding religion,…
Religion, Self Control, and Substance Use
Previous research has examined a number of mechanisms through which religion might have an indirect influence on substance use. One potential intervening mechanism that has received little empirical attention is self control. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we (1) examine the association between religion and self control, (2) determine if self control mediates the effect of religiosity on substanc…
Religious Involvement and Dynamics of Marijuana Use
Studies that examine the effects of adolescent religiosity on the initiation of, persistence in, and desistence from delinquency are rare. Yet, religion may differentially affect dimensions of delinquency in the early life course. Therefore, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we examine the relationship between measures of adolescent religion, as well as changes in religious involvement, and later p…
Self-Control, Opportunity, and Substance Use
We examine the effect of self-control and opportunity on adolescent substance use. When theorizing about the role of opportunity, we believe the "sanction potential" of a given situation should be considered. Our results suggest the effect of self-control on substance use does not depend on the availability of substances in the home (high sanction potential), but friends' substance use (low sanction potential) conditions the effect of self-contro…
Religiosity, Peers, and Delinquency
Do peer influences have the same effect on religious and nonreligious youth, or does religiosity reduce the effect of peers on delinquency? Using data from the National Youth Survey, we examined the interaction of religiosity and peer influences on marijuana use, alcohol use, hitting, and property offenses. The results suggest that, for marijuana use and alcohol use, three measures of peer influence—peer attitudes, behaviors, and pressure—have we…
Congregations and Crime
Few studies have focused on how religious congregations are associated with crime rates, especially at the neighborhood level. Using data for more than 400 block groups in Indianapolis, we focus on the relationship between different types of congregations (e.g., evangelical Protestant, civically engaged) and eight different types of crime controlling for a variety of neighborhood characteristics. The results suggest that neighborhoods with more e…
Religiosity, Moral Beliefs, and Delinquency
Does the effect of religiosity on delinquent behavior depend on moral beliefs? For example, will religious adolescents refrain from using marijuana, even if they do not believe using marijuana is wrong? We addressed this question using data from the third and fourth waves of the National Youth Survey. The results indicated a significant interaction between religiosity and moral beliefs for marijuana use and getting drunk, but not for hitting or p…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Neighborhood Crime Rates Using Latent Growth Curve Modeling
Although social disorganization theory provides a framework for understanding how changes in neighborhoods can influence crime rates over time, research on neighborhood characteristics and crime has relied primarily on cross-sectional data. Using a latent growth curve model and longitudinal data on residential burglary and vehicle theft in Indianapolis, measured annually between 1992 and 2006 at the census block group level, the authors analyzed …
Working for God
The Effects of Importance of Religion and Church Attendance on Adolescents' Moral Beliefs
Drawing on the work of Emile Durkheim ([1912] 1995) and Rodney Stark (2001 Stark, Rodney. 2001. Gods, Rituals, and the Moral Order. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40(4): 619–636. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) as well as research on the anti-ascetic thesis and reference group theory, we formulate a series of hypotheses regarding the effects of church attendance and importance of religion on adolescents' moral be…
Sympathy for the Devil
Previous research suggests that religious service attendance, biblical literalism, images of God, and other measures of religion are related to moral beliefs (i.e., that certain behaviors are wrong or deviant). Given previous theory and research on spiritual appraisals (particularly demonization and desecration), we argue that belief in Satan should also predict moral beliefs. Using the first four waves of the Baylor Religion Survey, we tested th…
Promoting Graduate Students' Membership in Professional Organizations
Les AA. estiment qu'il faut encourager les etudiants diplomes a faire parti d'organisations professionnelles. Ils affirment que, par ce biais, les etudiants pourront exercer une profession en rapport avec leur formation universitaire. Ils estiment que la mise en place d'ateliers, au sein des universites, doit permettre aux etudiants d'entrer en contact avec des organisations, des associations grâce auxquelles ils pourront s'inserer sur le plan pr…
Reclaiming Deviance as a Unique Course from Criminology
In this paper we address the overlap between deviance and criminology and provide suggestions for differentiating the two courses. In an effort to illustrate this overlap, we compared the topics covered in deviance and criminology textbooks because we believed that they represent accurately what is covered in many classrooms. We also reviewed the journal Deviant Behavior, because we believed that instructors teaching in this area would be likely …
Reclaiming Deviance as a Unique Course from Criminology
In this paper we address the overlap between deviance and criminology and provide suggestions for differentiating the two courses. In an effort to illustrate this overlap, we compared the topics covered in deviance and criminology textbooks because we believed that they represent accurately what is covered in many classrooms. We also reviewed the journal Deviant Behavior, because we believed that instructors teaching in this area would be likely …
Juvenile Delinquency
Promoting Graduate Students' Membership in Professional Organizations
Les AA. estiment qu'il faut encourager les etudiants diplomes a faire parti d'organisations professionnelles. Ils affirment que, par ce biais, les etudiants pourront exercer une profession en rapport avec leur formation universitaire. Ils estiment que la mise en place d'ateliers, au sein des universites, doit permettre aux etudiants d'entrer en contact avec des organisations, des associations grâce auxquelles ils pourront s'inserer sur le plan pr…
Teaching Criminology
Limitations of Self-Report Delinquency Surveys
Les AA. presentent une experience menee, aux Etats-Unis, dans le cadre d'un cours de premier cycle en sociologie portant sur la deviance. Dans ce cadre, ils se sont efforces de montrer aux etudiants les limites des questionnaires auto-administres pour ce qui est des enquetes conduites sur la delinquance. Ils presentent une procedure qui permet de comparer differents types de donnees et de modes de collecte de donnees sur la delinquance
A classroom exercise for teaching the problems of offense classification and tabulation associated with the UCR
We describe an in-class exercise used to demonstrate problems with the classification and recording of offenses in official crime statistics (the Uniform Crime Report or UCR). The exercise was used with criminology undergraduate students; their reaction indicates that it is effective for demonstrating limitations of the UCR. Following official guidelines, students classify and tabulate offenses described in crime scenarios. Their figures are comp…
Juvenile Delinquency
WHAT IS DELINQUENCY AND HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM ADULT CRIME? We View Juvenile Delinquents Differently than Adult Criminals We Treat Juvenile Delinquents Differently than Adult Criminals Older, Serious Juvenile Offenders as an Exception How Can We Explain the Invention of Juvenile Delinquency? 2. HOW IS DELINQUENCY MEASURED? Official Statistics-Especially Arrest Data from the Police Self-Report Data Overcoming the Preceding Problems Victimization …
Prioritizing Social Problems
ferent social problems in class, students inevitably disagree with one another and they also disagree with me. Usually the disagreements are mild and respectful, but sometimes they can become emotional and heated. I have developed an exercise to address this difference in attitudes and opinions early in the course and to set the stage for smoother discussions later. Although the exercise generates lively discussions and can be used to introduce s…
Do as I Say and as I Do
Previous research suggests that when mothers and fathers belong to the same religious denomination and/or they are equally religious, they are better able to transmit their religious behaviors and attitudes to their children. Instead of focusing on religious consistency between parents, our research explores the effect of consistency between a parent's attitudes and behaviors. When parents send a consistent message to children regarding religion,…
Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence
Religiosity, Moral Beliefs, and Delinquency
Does the effect of religiosity on delinquent behavior depend on moral beliefs? For example, will religious adolescents refrain from using marijuana, even if they do not believe using marijuana is wrong? We addressed this question using data from the third and fourth waves of the National Youth Survey. The results indicated a significant interaction between religiosity and moral beliefs for marijuana use and getting drunk, but not for hitting or p…
The Power of Place
Despite popular assumptions, criminologists have long recognized that crime rates are lower for various immigrant groups than for similarly disadvantaged African Americans. What accounts for this paradox? In this study, we consider the role of neighborhood context, specifically, the concentration of immigrants within a community, as a protective factor responsible, in part, for lower crime rates among various immigrant groups. We use data from th…
Religious Development
Researchers have argued for longitudinal studies that focus more attention on how religious attitudes and behaviors change during adolescence and, especially, as adolescents make the transition to young adulthood. Therefore, the authors use growth curve modeling to examine the infuence of parents and peers on adolescent religious service attendance and belief in the importance of religion using five waves (eight years) of the National Youth Surve…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Neighborhood Crime Rates Using Latent Growth Curve Modeling
Although social disorganization theory provides a framework for understanding how changes in neighborhoods can influence crime rates over time, research on neighborhood characteristics and crime has relied primarily on cross-sectional data. Using a latent growth curve model and longitudinal data on residential burglary and vehicle theft in Indianapolis, measured annually between 1992 and 2006 at the census block group level, the authors analyzed …
Congregations and Crime
Few studies have focused on how religious congregations are associated with crime rates, especially at the neighborhood level. Using data for more than 400 block groups in Indianapolis, we focus on the relationship between different types of congregations (e.g., evangelical Protestant, civically engaged) and eight different types of crime controlling for a variety of neighborhood characteristics. The results suggest that neighborhoods with more e…
Religiosity, Peers, and Delinquency
Do peer influences have the same effect on religious and nonreligious youth, or does religiosity reduce the effect of peers on delinquency? Using data from the National Youth Survey, we examined the interaction of religiosity and peer influences on marijuana use, alcohol use, hitting, and property offenses. The results suggest that, for marijuana use and alcohol use, three measures of peer influence—peer attitudes, behaviors, and pressure—have we…
Religious Involvement and Dynamics of Marijuana Use
Studies that examine the effects of adolescent religiosity on the initiation of, persistence in, and desistence from delinquency are rare. Yet, religion may differentially affect dimensions of delinquency in the early life course. Therefore, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we examine the relationship between measures of adolescent religion, as well as changes in religious involvement, and later p…
Self-Control, Opportunity, and Substance Use
We examine the effect of self-control and opportunity on adolescent substance use. When theorizing about the role of opportunity, we believe the "sanction potential" of a given situation should be considered. Our results suggest the effect of self-control on substance use does not depend on the availability of substances in the home (high sanction potential), but friends' substance use (low sanction potential) conditions the effect of self-contro…
Religion, Self Control, and Substance Use
Previous research has examined a number of mechanisms through which religion might have an indirect influence on substance use. One potential intervening mechanism that has received little empirical attention is self control. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we (1) examine the association between religion and self control, (2) determine if self control mediates the effect of religiosity on substanc…
The Effects of Importance of Religion and Church Attendance on Adolescents' Moral Beliefs
Drawing on the work of Emile Durkheim ([1912] 1995) and Rodney Stark (2001 Stark, Rodney. 2001. Gods, Rituals, and the Moral Order. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40(4): 619–636. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) as well as research on the anti-ascetic thesis and reference group theory, we formulate a series of hypotheses regarding the effects of church attendance and importance of religion on adolescents' moral be…
Being Thankful
“Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice”
Although previous research suggests that religion contributes to greater life satisfaction, there is still disagreement about what aspects of religion predict greater life satisfaction. Despite a growing body of theory and research on emerging adulthood as a life stage that is distinct from adolescence and young adulthood, there has also been limited research on the relationship between religion and life satisfaction among emerging adults. Based …
Secrets and Lies
There is very little research on the relationship between adolescent religiosity and concealing information from parents, although research on religiosity and family life is plentiful. Therefore, I used the second wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion to examine the relationship between adolescent religiosity and lying to parents and keeping secrets from parents. The results suggest that adolescents who attend religious services more o…
Every Sinner Has a Future
Based on previous research, I hypothesize that religious adolescents living in the United States are more likely to have a future orientation (i.e., they are more likely to think about the future), which in turn contributes to their greater self-control. I also hypothesize that a future orientation and self-control mediate the effect of religious service attendance and importance of religion on adolescent marijuana use. Based on the second wave o…
Religion, future orientation, and subjective well-being among emerging adults
We hypothesise that religion is associated with how often emerging adults think about the future, which is then related to their greater subjective well-being. Based on a secondary analysis of the third wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), participation in organised religion is negatively related to thinking about the future, whereas religious efficacy and having religious friends are positively related to thinking about the f…
Psychology (26 obras) · Social Psychology (21 obras) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (17 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Criminology (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Religiosity (13 obras) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras)