Updated Heaven, Hell and Crime data for Shariff & Rhemtulla 2012
There have been some requests for the data for Shariff & Rhemtulla (2012)–which shows how national crime rates are divergently predicted by the country’s belief in Heaven and belief in Hell. These data are all freely available, but I’ve compiled them here for download in SPSS format. I’ve updated the data to the most recent versions. Also, I’m just including the crime data for homicide rates, rather than for all the crimes. The reason for this is that criminologists consider homicide to be the most cleanly comparable across countries. Other crimes, such as assault, are more inconsistently defined, detected and reported across countries (see Neopolitan, 1996).
