Finding Freedom in Confinement
Subtitle: The Role of Religion in Prison Life
By: edited by Kent R. Kerley Ph.D.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9798400651359
Subjects: Religion: general
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: 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