DATA ANALYSIS

Data Analysis of the Impact of Christianity Involvement on Attitudes towards Crime and Punishment

Data Analysis of the Impact of Christianity Involvement on Attitudes towards Crime and Punishment

One-Sample Statistics

N

Mean

Std. Deviation

Std. Error Mean

Low belief

12

1.6667

.88763

.25624

High belief

12

4.7500

.62158

.17944

In relation to impact of Christianity involvement on attitudes towards crime and punishment, from the above table, it can be observed that the mean value of the people who believe in negative manner that Christians believe that religion deters people from committing crime and Christian church goers think that criminals can or should be rehabilitated is 1.667 with the standard deviation of 0.8876 and the mean standard error is 0.256. Besides it, it is observed from the responses of the participants that the mean people who believe in positive manner that Christians believe that religion deters people from committing crime and Christian church goers think that criminals can or should be rehabilitated is 4.75 with the standard deviation of 0.621 and the mean standard error is 0.179.

One-Sample Test

Test Value = 0

t

df

Sig. (2-tailed)

Mean Difference

95 % Confidence Interval of the Difference

Lower

Upper

Low belief

6.504

11

.000

1.66667

1.1027

2.2306

High belief

26.472

11

.000

4.75000

4.3551

5.1449

In addition to this, the above test is showing that the means of the people who believe in positive and negative manner in context of Christian church goers think that criminals can or should be rehabilitated and Christians believe that religion deters people from committing crime are equal. This reflects that the both the variables have an association between them.

In particular relation to the impact of Christianity involvement on attitudes towards crime and punishment, the Christian beliefs and practices have diversified over the centuries and around the world. Therefore, there is no comprehensive definition of the Christian faith and its doctrines. However, there are some elements of homogeneity such as the central belief in Jesus Christ. The largest number of Christians defines their faith by the Creed, common foundation of faith affirming the oneness of God, life, death and resurrection of Jesus, "the resurrection of the flesh and the life of the world to come". A change in the Creed by Rome opened the filioque controversy: if the Holy Spirit also flows from Christ, and not only of God, a soul can be saved only if the person is Christian, which completely changes the relationship to unbelievers and other beliefs. This controversy led to the schism of 1054 between Catholics and Orthodox. Centuries later, other challenges to positions of Rome led to Catharism and Protestantism.

Moreover, in context of the impact of Christianity involvement on attitudes towards crime and punishment with reference of faith, the kerygma, the fundamental creed of Christians contained in the Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, says that if Jesus Christ is not raised, the Christian faith is empty. Two other creeds have clarified the Christian faith, the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene-Constantinople (or creed). However, all Christians do not place a value on these last two. These professions of faith are divided into four parts. The first confirms the doctrine monotheistic Christianity by stating that there is only one God who ...