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Book SynopsisExplore the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation!
This book reports on current research from several disciplines to help the reader understand the nature and impact of the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation. Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders is a unique resourcethere has been very little research published on this important topic.
President Bush''s faith-based initiative recognized that religion plays a role in the justice system and corrections that is overlooked but essentialit increases the role of community and caring in the system in a unique and important way. This pathbreaking book points the way toward a system of faith-based programs that are not only effective but also economical, as these programs are often staffed by volunteers.
Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders addresses im
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Religion-Offenders-Rehabilitation: Questioning the Relationship
- Prison Religion in Action and Its Influence on Offender Rehabilitation
- The Reasons for Religious Involvement in the Correctional Environment
- The Role of the Prison Chaplain in Rehabilitation
- Intersections of Race, Religion, and Inmate Culture: The Historical Development of Islam in American Corrections
- Resistance to Conversion to Islam Among African American Women Inmates
- Prisoners, Prison, and Religion: Religion and Adjustment to Prison
- Religiosity and Drug Use Among Inmates in Boot Camp: Testing a Theoretical Model with Reciprocal Relationships
- Denominational Differences in Self-Reported Delinquency
- Evaluating Religious Initiatives in a Correctional Setting: Do Inmates Speak?
- Shame and Religion as Factors in the Rehabilitation of Serious Offenders
- Social Theory, Sacred Text, and Sing-Sing Prison: A Sociology of Community-Based Reconciliation
- The Prisoner as Scapegoat: Some Skeptical Remarks on Present Penal Policy
- Rethinking God, Justice, and Treatment of Offenders
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
