title: The prevalence of middle eastern extremist ideologies among some canadian offenders.
abstract: The Belief Diversity Scale (BDS) was administered to 89 male Canadian offenders of different religious backgrounds. The BDS is a 33-item, sixsubscale 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.
authors: Queen's University, Canada. wml1@sympatico.ca
authors: Wagdy
authors: W
authors: Loza
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008877:Middle East / Q000208:ethnology; D011209:Power, Psychological; D015995:Prevalence; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018454:Spouses / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult