Religion, the community, and the rehabilitation of criminal offenders / Thomas P. O'Connor, Nathaniel J. Pallone, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Connor, Thomas P.

Pallone, Nathaniel J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminals--Rehabilitation.

Criminals.

Religion and social problems.

Religious work with prisoners.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explore 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 resource?there 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 i

Contents:

Religion-offender-rehabilitation : questioning the relationship / Thomas P. Oconnor

Prison religion in action and its influence on offender rehabilitation / Thomas P. Oconnor, Michael Perryclear

Religious involvement in the correctional environment / Harry R. Dammer

The role of the prison chaplain in rehabilitation / Jody L. Sundt, Harry R. Dammer, Francis T. Cullen

Intersections of race, religion, and inmate culture : the historical development of Islam in American corrections / Felicia Dix-Richardson, Billy R. Close

Resistance to conversion to Islam among African American women inmates / Felicia Dix-Richardson

Prisoners, prison, and religion : religion and adjustment to prison / Todd R. Clear, Melvina T. Sumter

Religiosity and drug use among inmates in boot camp : testing a theoretical model with reciprocal relationships / Brent B. Benda, Nancy J. Toombs

Denominational differences in self-reported delinquency / Lee Ellis

Evaluating religious initiatives in a correctional setting : do inmates speak? / Andrew Skotnicki

Shame and religion as factors in the rehabilitation of serious offenders / Kenneth D. Jensen, Stephen G. Gibbons

Social theory, sacred text, and Sing-Sing prison : a sociology of community-based reconciliation / Victoria Lee Erickson

The prisoner as scapegoat : some skeptical remarks on present penal policy / T.J. Gorringe

Rethinking God, justice, and treatment of offenders / Ted Grimsrud, Howard Zehr.

Notes:

"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of offender rehabilitation, volume 35, numbers 3/4 2002."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-40931-9

0-203-04956-X

1-283-96850-9

1-136-40924-6

9780203049563

OCLC:

829461887