Finding Freedom in Confinement (eBook, ePUB)

The Role of Religion in Prison Life
Redaktion: Ph. D., Kent R. Kerley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is the nature and impact of faith and religion in prison? This book summarizes contemporary and cutting-edge research on religion in correctional contexts, enabling a scientific understanding of how prisoners use faith in their everyday lives.

Religion long has been a tool for correctional treatment. In the United States, religion was the primary treatment modality in the first prisons. Only since the 1980s, however, have social scientists begun to study the nature, extent, practice, and impact of faith and faith-based prison programs. Bringing together the knowledge of scholars from around the world, this single-volume book offers readers a science- and research-based understanding of how prisoners use faith in everyday life, examining the role of religion in prison/correctional contexts from a variety of interdisciplinary and international viewpoints.

By considering the perspectives of professionals actually working in corrections or prison settings as well as those of scholars studying religion and/or criminal justice, readers of Finding Freedom in Confinement: The Role of Religion in Prison Life can gain insight into the most contemporary research on religion in correctional contexts. The book contains data-driven, conceptual, and policy-oriented essays that cover major religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam within correctional environments. It also addresses subject matter such as the roles of prison chaplains and correctional officers and the relationships between religion and common aspects of prison life, such as drug abuse, gangs, violence, prisoner identity, rights of prisoners, and rehabilitation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216084648
• Artikelnr.: 68165012

Autorenporträt

Kent R. Kerley, PhD, is professor and chair in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Texas at Arlington.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Kent R. Kerley Part One Perspectives
on Religion in Prison Settings Chapter 1 Faith and Service: Pathways to
Identity Transformation and Correctional Reform Byron R. Johnson, Grant
Duwe, Michael Hallett, Joshua Hays, Sung Joon Jang, Matthew T. Lee, Maria
E. Pagano, and Stephen G. Post Chapter 2 Religion and Desistance: Working
with Sexual and Violent Offenders Christian Perrin, Nicholas Blagden,
Belinda Winder, and Christine Norman Chapter 3 Religious Rites and Rights
of Prisoners in the United States Janet Moreno and Kent R. Kerley Chapter 4
"We Serve Forgotten Men": Structural Charity versus Religious Freedom in
Serving Ex-Offenders Michael Hallett and Megan R. Bookstaver Chapter 5 A
Theological Critique of the "Correctional" System Andrew Skotnicki Part Two
Religion in Prison in the United States Chapter 6 Religion and Prison
Violence Benjamin Meade and Riane M. Bolin Chapter 7 The Effects of
Religion on the Prisonization of Incarcerated Juveniles in Faith-Based
Facilities Lonn Lanza-Kaduce, Jodi Lane, and Kristen Benedini Chapter 8
Religion Postprison: Roles Faith Played in Colson Scholars'
Convict-to-Collegian Transition Judith A. Leary Chapter 9 Prison, Religion,
and Conversion: The Prisoner's Narrative Experience Malcolm L. Rigsby
Chapter 10 Reading Scripture in Exile: Favorite Scriptures among
Maximum-Security Inmates Participating in Prison Seminary Programs Joshua
Hays Chapter 11 Backgrounds and Motivations of Prison Chaplains Andrew S.
Denney Chapter 12 Restrictions on Inmate Freedom of Religious Practice: A
National and International Perspective Jason Jolicoeur and Erin Grant Part
Three Religion in Prison outside the United States Chapter 13 Faith
Provision, Institutional Power, and Meaning among Muslim Prisoners in Two
English High-Security Prisons Ryan J. Williams and Alison Liebling Chapter
14 Breaking the Prison-Jihadism Pipeline: Prison and Religious Extremism in
the War on Terror Gabriel Rubin Chapter 15 Orthodox Judaism as a Pathway to
Desistance: A Study of Religion and Reentry in Israeli Prisons Elly Teman
and Michal Morag Chapter 16 Religious Diversity in Swiss and Italian
Prisons: Combining Institutional and Inmate Perspectives Irene Becci,
Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali, and Valentina Schiavinato Chapter 17
Incarcerated Child Sexual Offenders and the Reinvention of Self through
Religious and Spiritual Affiliation Stephanie Kewley, Michael Larkin, Leigh
Harkins, and Anthony Beech Part Four Conclusion Chapter 18 Assessing the
Past, Present, and Future of Research on Religion in Prison Kent R. Kerley
About the Editor and Contributors Index