Another look at delinquency and religiosity

A homogeneous effects logistic regression technique for ordinal response dependent variables is employed to test the relationships between religiosity and several forms of delinquent behavior. This technique permits a test of the Hellfire hypothesis originally argued by Hirschi and Stark (1969). The data for this analysis are based on self‐reports from a sample of 3,065 male and female adolescents in grades seven through twelve in three Midwestern states. Strong support for the hypothesis is observed.