Harry's Place: Comment on Religious Troublemakers

Harry's Place: Comment on Religious Troublemakers:

"Doing just what David Boothroyd suggested, I get the following (perps per thousand general population):

Christian 1.009
Buddhist 6.238
Hindu 0.6066
Jewish 0.6898
Muslim 3.856
Sikh 1.458
Other 1.157
No Religion 1.657"

The average seems to be about 1 per thousand, that is the level of the christian group who are also the majority group with a fairly low standard deviation that is spread equally amougst all of the religions. Until you get to Buddhism, which stands out like a sore thumb as way more likely to have followers in prison per head of population than anyone else. Since Buddhists only have 0.3% of the population their error bar is going to be higher but still that is very high. Possibly convertion in prison (Islam is well known to get many converts in prison which accounts for it's relavily high numbers). I guess that being locked in a cell all day would be good for meditation.