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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: O'Connor, Thomas P.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 296 p.
• Notes: "Co-published simultaneously as Journal of offender rehabilitation, volume 35, numbers 3/4 2002."

Table of 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.