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Religion, Prosocial Learning, Self Control, and Delinquency Scott A. Desmond Purdue University Jeffery T. Ulmer Penn State University Christopher D. Bader Baylor University Why Might Religiosity Inhibit Delinquency? Social Learning: Religious observance and taking religious teaching seriously involves learning prosocial norms and values. Self Control: Religious observance may build self control. This Study’s Goals We examine the degree to which religiosity, and membership in particular religious traditions, increases self control. We assess the effects of religiosity, religious denominations, and self control on delinquency, and the extent to which religiosity has an indirect effect on delinquency through self control. Finally, we investigate whether the effect of self control on delinquency varies depending on adolescents’ religiosity. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Prior Theory and Research Concern with self control has a long history in criminology, but very few studies simultaneously examine religiosity, self control, and crime/delinquency. The consensus of prior research indicates that religiosity has a moderate but consistent effect on delinquency, particularly in stronger “moral communities,” and particularly for drug/alcohol use. Research has shown that religiosity’s effects are partially, but not fully, indirect, through social learning and conventional social bonds. What else can help explain religiosity’s ability to insulate youths from delinquency? Self control is a good candidate. Every major religion tries to promote self control in the face of behavior seen as wrong. A number of studies: a) endorse the concept of self control, b) suggest that it is malleable after late childhood, and c) suggest that factors other than the parenting practices identified by Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) affect it. “Self control is itself a product of social learning, and therefore any variation that