text: Sydney, in prisons are only the offenders who got caught and not the ones that are still roaming the internet, streets and society, so that is a flawed statement as well as research in itself.   Your quote: "Rather, being better off financially and better educated both makes you less likely to commit crimes and less likely to be religious"
  Also Flawed.  First off, I think the majority of Jews will totally disagree with you - they are among the world's best educated and smartest people and (most of them) take their religion seriously. The rest of us - I know just in my small circle several architects, lawyers, engineers etc etc who are totally religious(Christian) and I know of an equal amount of highly educated people who are total crooks -they are just smarter about it and do it in such a way that it is difficult to get caught, but they are as criminally minded as any other uneducated, poor, criminal.