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The Prevalence of Middle Eastern Extremist Ideologies Among Some Canadian Offenders

Queen’s University

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	Abstract

The Belief Diversity Scale (BDS) was administered to 89 male Canadian offenders of different religious backgrounds. The BDS is a 33-item, six-subscale instrument designed to quantitatively measure the religious attitudes, beliefs, and ideologies of Middle Eastern extremists on risk areas described in the literature. Results indicated that the Muslim offenders scored much higher than and significantly different from both the Christian and atheist groups on the BDS. Results also suggested the prevalence of Middle Eastern extremist ideologies among the Muslim offenders involved in this study.

First published on July 7, 2009
Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2009, doi:10.1177/0886260509336966


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