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Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking
budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering
services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates. Drawing from
three years of on-site research, this book utilizes survey analysis
along with life-history interviews of inmates and staff to explore
the history, purpose, and functioning of the Inmate Minister
program at Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka "Angola"), America's
largest maximum-security prison. This book takes seriously
attributions from inmates that faith is helpful for "surviving
prison" and explores the implications of religious programming for
an American corrections system in crisis, featuring high
recidivism, dehumanizing violence, and often draconian punishments.
A first-of-its-kind prototype in a quickly expanding policy arena,
Angola's unique Inmate Minister program deploys trained graduates
of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in bi-vocational
pastoral service roles throughout the prison. Inmates lead their
own congregations and serve in lay-ministry capacities in hospice,
cell block visitation, delivery of familial death notifications to
fellow inmates, "sidewalk counseling" and tier ministry,
officiating inmate funerals, and delivering "care packages" to
indigent prisoners. Life-history interviews uncover deep-level
change in self-identity corresponding with a growing body of
research on identity change and religiously motivated desistance.
The concluding chapter addresses concerns regarding the First
Amendment, the dysfunctional state of U.S. corrections, and
directions for future research.
Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking
budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering
services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates. Drawing from
three years of on-site research, this book utilizes survey analysis
along with life-history interviews of inmates and staff to explore
the history, purpose, and functioning of the Inmate Minister
program at Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka "Angola"), America's
largest maximum-security prison. This book takes seriously
attributions from inmates that faith is helpful for "surviving
prison" and explores the implications of religious programming for
an American corrections system in crisis, featuring high
recidivism, dehumanizing violence, and often draconian punishments.
A first-of-its-kind prototype in a quickly expanding policy arena,
Angola's unique Inmate Minister program deploys trained graduates
of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in bi-vocational
pastoral service roles throughout the prison. Inmates lead their
own congregations and serve in lay-ministry capacities in hospice,
cell block visitation, delivery of familial death notifications to
fellow inmates, "sidewalk counseling" and tier ministry,
officiating inmate funerals, and delivering "care packages" to
indigent prisoners. Life-history interviews uncover deep-level
change in self-identity corresponding with a growing body of
research on identity change and religiously motivated desistance.
The concluding chapter addresses concerns regarding the First
Amendment, the dysfunctional state of U.S. corrections, and
directions for future research.
Is mass murder a historically new phenomenon that emerged in the
1960s? How has it changed over time? This book explores these
questions by examining 909 mass murders that took place in the
United States between 1900 and 1999. By far the largest study on
the topic to date, it begins with a look at the patterns and
prevalence of mass murders by presenting rates from 1900?1999 and
by describing the characteristics of mass killers. Placing the
phenomenon within the broader social, political, and economic
context of the twentieth century, the work examines the factors
that have influenced trends in the prevalence of mass murder. It
also discusses more than 100 case studies within three distinct
periods of mass murder activity (1900?1939, 1940?1965, and
1966?1999) to illustrate more clearly the motives of mass murderers
and the circumstances surrounding their crimes. The final chapters
take a look at media coverage and the role it has played in the
social construction of mass murder.
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