What is the link between faith, community, and criminal behavior?  At 12:00 noon on November 3^rd the Family Research Council will host a lecture to explore these themes.

While religion never shows up in most criminal justice textbooks, renowned criminologist Byron R. Johnson demonstrates the strong link between religious practice and crime reduction. In his book More God, Less Crime, Johnson suggests that the American criminal justice system can't afford to turn up its nose at faith-based volunteer efforts that could work far better than the abysmal status quo, and save billions of taxpayer dollars at the same time.

Johnson's book describes how faith communities, congregations, and faith-based organizations can effectively address crime, offender rehabilitation, and the substantial aftercare problems facing former prisoners.

Byron Johnson is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University, Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) as well as director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior, both at Baylor. He is a Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute (Princeton), and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Jewish and Community Research (San Francisco). Johnson is chief advisor for the Center for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society, Peking University (Beijing). He is also a senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research. Click here for a more complete bio.