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. Presents an international
scope that covers a diversity of faith traditions Comprises
contributions from leading scholars who incorporate various
research methodologies, such as surveys, in-depth interviews,
participant observation, and content analysis into their writings
Moves the discussion of religion in prison away from popular
discourse, advocacy works, and media stories that prioritize
emotion and sensationalism over empirical verification
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