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Religion the Community and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders.

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. Re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Connor, Thomas P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders; Title Page; Copyright Page; 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 PrisonReligiosity 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.