The Role of Religion in Pro Social Behavior of Youth

Baylor University will conduct the Religion in Prosocial Youth Behavior project with the main aims of 1) identifying protective factors that will help faith-based and secular programs attain competency; 2) developing empirically informed scholarship to promote youth crime desistance; 3) fostering an integrated approach to youth crime prevention that includes the role of religion; 4) publishing a series of articles on the connection of religion to prosocial youth behavior; 5) systematic review and synthesis of the religion-crime literature; and 6) hold a research conference on the role of religion in promoting prosocial youth behavior. CA/NCF