Beyond Prisons
Subtitle: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: May 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780800638320
Subjects: Prisons; Sociology; Moral and ethical aspects; Applied Ethics; United States; Social Science; Religion - Socialissues; Penology; Ecumenism; Sociology of Religion; Corrections; Criminology; Criminal justice, Administration of
First sentence: In order to understand how it came to pass that the United States incarcerates over two million people, we must return to the nation's roots.
Description: "The Society of Friends (Quakers) founded America's first "penitentiary" in the 1790s. For more than forty years, the American Friends Service Committee has worked with prisoners, parolees, and victims of crime, seeking just alternatives to incarceration. In Beyond Prisons, the AFSC offers a powerful moral critique of the American criminal justice system and describes a new paradigm for dealing with criminals based on restorative justice and reconciliation. The authors include a specific twelve-point plan for immediate changes."--BOOK JACKET.