{"id":67603,"date":"2015-08-08T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=67603"},"modified":"2015-08-02T15:21:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T20:21:39","slug":"half-of-all-church-fires-are-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/08\/08\/half-of-all-church-fires-are-arson\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of all church fires are arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to data presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/07\/24\/half-of-all-church-fires-in-past-20-years-were-arsons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a>, 51%\u00a0of the last 20 years of\u00a0fires at houses of worship were\u00a0ruled &#8220;intentional.&#8221; In contrast, 10% of non-residential fires and 5% of residential fires are believed to be arson.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, all types of fire incidents at churches and other houses of worship have been declining, but the proportion that are ruled intentional has been stable. In 1996, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/cpquery\/T?&amp;report=hr621&amp;dbname=104&amp;\">House Judiciary Committee report<\/a>\u00a0found that arson\u00a0attacks disproportionately targeted black churches in the South.<\/p>\n<p>This is your image of the week:<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/08\/5.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67609\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/08\/5-500x360.png\" alt=\"5\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/08\/5-500x360.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/08\/5.png 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Play with the interactive data <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/07\/24\/half-of-all-church-fires-in-past-20-years-were-arsons\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<script id=\"pew-iframe\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[ \/\/ < ![CDATA[ (function(){function async_load(){var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src='http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pew-scripts\/js\/iframeResizer.min.js';s.onload=s.onreadystatechange=function(){var rs=this.readyState;try{iFrameResize([],'iframe#pew272089')}catch(e){}};var embedder=document.getElementById('pew-iframe');embedder.parentNode.insertBefore(s,embedder)}if(window.attachEvent)window.attachEvent('onload',async_load);else window.addEventListener('load',async_load,false)})();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data presented by Pew Research Center, 51%\u00a0of the last 20 years of\u00a0fires at houses of worship were\u00a0ruled &#8220;intentional.&#8221; In contrast, 10% of non-residential fires and 5% of residential fires are believed to be arson. Overall, all types of fire incidents at churches and other houses of worship have been declining, but the proportion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":67610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,2056,283,285,1760,20063,42,23659],"class_list":["post-67603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-crimelaw","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-religion","tag-religion-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/08\/131.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67611,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67603\/revisions\/67611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}