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Irreligious prison population (view source)
Revision as of 19:29, February 20, 2017
, 19:29, February 20, 2017→Commentary by Skepchcks about U.S. prison statistics and atheists
''See:'' [[Atheism and illegitimate births|Atheism, illegitimate births and criminality]]
''See:'' [[Atheism and illegitimate births|Atheism, illegitimate births and criminality]]
== Commentary by Skepchcks about U.S. prison statistics and atheists ==
== Atheism and prison population: Commentary by Skepchicks ==
*[http://skepchick.org/2014/06/atheists-prison/ Fellow Atheists: Quit Bragging About Our Prison Underrepresentation] (Related to [[United States]] statistics)
See also: [[Western atheism and race]] and [[Demographics of atheism]]
The [[Skepchicks]] website published an article entitled Fellow Atheists: Quit Bragging About Our Prison Underrepresentation which declared:
{{Cquote|Atheism is a movement comprised mostly of middle-to-upper-class white people. A middle-to-upper-class white person is far less likely to be incarcerated than a poor person and/or a person of color. The only way atheists as a whole might be less likely to be incarcerated than theists would be if we were a female-majority community. Atheism is hardly the cause of white middle-to-upper-class people’s underrepresentation in the prison population, injustice in the criminal justice system is...
Intersectional issues aside, being arrested and convicted means being caught breaking the law. Would most of us atheists consider, say, possession of small amounts of marijuana to be a crime worthy of incarceration, let alone an immoral act? Yet prisons teem with non-violent drug offenders. As for being caught, I will return to the example of marijuana. How many of us class and race privileged* atheists would be imprisoned for drug possession had it not been for residence in low-density housing in areas rarely patrolled by the police? Living in a detached home reduces the likelihood of a neighbor or passer-by reporting drug use to the authorities but is hardly an indicator of superior moral character.
Given that we’re a movement of people not exactly known for dealing so well, if at all, with issues of race or class.<ref>[http://skepchick.org/2014/06/atheists-prison/ Fellow Atheists: Quit Bragging About Our Prison Underrepresentation] (Related to [[United States]] statistics)</ref>}}
==See also==
==See also==