{"id":6191,"date":"2011-06-17T09:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2011-06-17T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:06:54","slug":"professors-book-presents-a-simple-equation-more-god-less-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/06\/professors-book-presents-a-simple-equation-more-god-less-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor&#8217;s book presents a simple equation: &#8216;More God, Less Crime&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moregodlesscrime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"moregodbook-june11\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/moregodbook-june11.jpg\" alt=\"More God, Less Crime\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Some might see it as obvious; others, as misguided optimism. But with every society looking to reduce crime, the notion that religion can be an antidote to such behavior is intriguing. That&#8217;s the premise behind <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/More-God-Less-Crime-Matters\/dp\/1599473739\" target=\"_blank\">More God, Less Crime<\/a><\/em>, the latest book from Dr. Byron Johnson, distinguished professor of the social sciences and director of Baylor&#8217;s Institute for the Studies of Religion (ISR).<\/p>\n<p>Johnson points to evidence that increased religious activity can not only reduce crime, but actually increase what he calls prosocial behavior &#8212; basically, being a good citizen. Writing in a lay-friendly format, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isreligion.org\/about-isr\/byron-r-johnson\/more-god-less-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\">More God, Less Crime<\/a><\/em> pulls together research from a wide variety of sources to make his case for how the &#8220;faith factor&#8221; can help faith-based groups more effectively help the American criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>You may have already read about the book, thanks to reviews from publications such as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2011\/june\/prisonpartnership.html?start=1\" target=\"_blank\">Christianity Today<\/a><\/em> and the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703778104576287043835803026.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>, or heard Johnson interviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakpoint.org\/bpcommentaries\/entry\/13\/17051\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Colson&#8217;s &#8220;Breakpoint&#8221;<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isreligion.org\/2011\/06\/byron-r-johnson-on-michael-medved-show-more-god-less-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Michael Medved Show.&#8221;<\/a> As I write this, the book is Amazon&#8217;s No. 25 bestseller in the area of sociology and No. 40 in criminology.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Dr. Johnson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some might see it as obvious; others, as misguided optimism. But with every society looking to reduce crime, the notion that religion can be an antidote to such behavior is intriguing. That&#8217;s the premise behind More God, Less Crime, the latest book from Dr. Byron Johnson, distinguished professor of the social sciences and director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-faith","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}