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Drawing on work from inside some of America's largest and toughest
prisons, this book documents an alternative model of "restorative
corrections" utilizing the lived experience of successful inmates,
fast disrupting traditional models of correctional programming.
While research documents a strong desire among those serving time
in prison to redeem themselves, inmates often confront a profound
lack of opportunity for achieving redemption. In a system that has
become obsessively and dysfunctionally punitive, often fewer than
10% of prisoners receive any programming. Incarcerated citizens
emerge from prisons in the United States to reoffend at profoundly
high rates, with the majority of released prisoners ending up back
in prison within five years. In this book, the authors describe a
transformative agenda for incentivizing and rewarding good behavior
inside prisons, rapidly proving to be a disruptive alternative to
mainstream corrections and offering hope for a positive future. The
authors' expertise on the impact of faith-based programs on
recidivism reduction and prisoner reentry allows them to delve into
the principles behind inmate-led religious services and other
prosocial programs-to show how those incarcerated may come to
consider their existence as meaningful despite their criminal past
and current incarceration. Religious practice is shown to
facilitate the kind of transformational "identity work" that leads
to desistance that involves a change in worldview and self-concept,
and which may lead a prisoner to see and interpret reality in a
fundamentally different way. With participation in religion
protected by the U.S. Constitution, these model programs are
helping prison administrators weather financial challenges while
also helping make prisons less punitive, more transparent, and
emotionally restorative. This book is essential reading for
scholars of corrections, offender reentry, community corrections,
and religion and crime, as well as professionals and volunteers
involved in correctional counseling and prison ministry.
Drawing on work from inside some of America's largest and toughest
prisons, this book documents an alternative model of "restorative
corrections" utilizing the lived experience of successful inmates,
fast disrupting traditional models of correctional programming.
While research documents a strong desire among those serving time
in prison to redeem themselves, inmates often confront a profound
lack of opportunity for achieving redemption. In a system that has
become obsessively and dysfunctionally punitive, often fewer than
10% of prisoners receive any programming. Incarcerated citizens
emerge from prisons in the United States to reoffend at profoundly
high rates, with the majority of released prisoners ending up back
in prison within five years. In this book, the authors describe a
transformative agenda for incentivizing and rewarding good behavior
inside prisons, rapidly proving to be a disruptive alternative to
mainstream corrections and offering hope for a positive future. The
authors' expertise on the impact of faith-based programs on
recidivism reduction and prisoner reentry allows them to delve into
the principles behind inmate-led religious services and other
prosocial programs-to show how those incarcerated may come to
consider their existence as meaningful despite their criminal past
and current incarceration. Religious practice is shown to
facilitate the kind of transformational "identity work" that leads
to desistance that involves a change in worldview and self-concept,
and which may lead a prisoner to see and interpret reality in a
fundamentally different way. With participation in religion
protected by the U.S. Constitution, these model programs are
helping prison administrators weather financial challenges while
also helping make prisons less punitive, more transparent, and
emotionally restorative. This book is essential reading for
scholars of corrections, offender reentry, community corrections,
and religion and crime, as well as professionals and volunteers
involved in correctional counseling and prison ministry.
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.
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David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics, 1915-1927 - Relativity, Quantum Theory and Epistemology (English, German, Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Tilman Sauer, Ulrich Majer; Adapted by William Bragg Ewald, Michael Hallett, Ulrich Majer, …
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These documents do nothing less than bear witness to one of the
most dramatic changes in the foundations of science. The book has
three sections that cover general relativity, epistemological
issues, and quantum mechanics. This fascinating work will be a
vital text for historians and philosophers of physics, as well as
researchers in related physical theories.
This volume contains six sets of notes for lectures on the
foundations of geometry held by Hilbert in the period 1891-1902. It
also reprints the first edition of Hilbert's celebrated Grundlagen
der Geometrie of 1899, together with the important additions which
appeared first in the French translation of 1900. The lectures
document the emergence of a new approach to foundational study and
contain many reflections and investigations which never found their
way into print.
The core of Volume3 consists of lecture notes for seven sets of
lectures Hilbert gave (often in collaboration with Bernays) on the
foundations of mathematics between 1917 and 1926. These texts make
possible for the first time a detailed reconstruction of the rapid
development of Hilbert's foundational thought during this period,
and show the increasing dominance of the metamathematical
perspective in his logical work: the emergence of modern
mathematical logic; the explicit raising of questions of
completeness, consistency and decidability for logical systems; the
investigation of the relative strengths of various logical calculi;
the birth and evolution of proof theory, and the parallel emergence
of Hilbert's finitist standpoint. The lecture notes are accompanied
by numerous supplementary documents, both published and
unpublished, including a complete version of Bernays's
"Habilitationschrift" of 1918, the text of the first edition of
Hilbert and Ackermann's "Grundzuge der theoretischen Logik" (1928),
and several shorter lectures by Hilbert from the later 1920s. These
documents, which provide the background to Hilbert and Bernays's
monumental "Grundlagen der Mathematik" (1934, 1938), are essential
for understanding the development of modern mathematical logic, and
for reconstructing the interactions between Hilbert, Bernays,
Brouwer, and Weyl in the philosophy of mathematics. "
This book shows that contemporary approaches to picture based
journalism can be traced back through unbroken lines of development
from the pioneering work of Stefan Lorant seventy years ago,
drawing along the way upon the inspiration of Lorant, his
contemporaries and those who followed him. Lorant's legacy
continues to influence institutions and individuals alike. As
Steven Heller observed, 'There is no telling what photojournalism
would be like today if it wasn't for Lorant's efforts.' The
influence and legacy of Lorant's picture based journalism and
Picture Post in particular have permeated magazines of the time
including Life and Look magazines, more recently the colour
supplements such as The Sunday Times Magazine as well as Town and
Queen. Overall his contribution to 'the creative use of actuality'
has changed the way we see the social landscape in such celebrity
magazines such as OK and Hello and the television documentary from
the early BBC Tonight programmes through to Panorama. New analysis,
interpretations, linkages and extended time spans provide
considered conclusions of particular interest to those involved
with photography, media and communication.
How do 100 major criminal justice groups in the United States work
to affect public policies dealing with criminal justice in all its
aspects? Institutional analyses are arranged alphabetically,
describing the groups in terms of their history, purpose, principal
activities and concerns in relation to Congress, and key resource
materials. Appendices list the organizations with their addresses
and regular publications. The authors summarize their work
statistically and provide the survey questionnaire the groups all
received. A brief bibliography points to a few significant sources
on criminal justice groups as a whole. Internal cross-references
and a full index make the reference easily accessible to students,
teachers, and professionals.
Cantor's ideas formed the basis for set theory and also for the
mathematical treatment of the concept of infinity. The
philosophical and heuristic framework he developed had a lasting
effect on modern mathematics, and is the recurrent theme of this
volume. Hallett explores Cantor's ideas and, in particular, their
ramifications for Zermelo-Frankel set theory.
A lavishly illustrated book documenting the reconstruction and
development of Bullring in Birmingham, Europe's largest city
centre, retail led regeneration project of recent decades. Using a
novel form of representation, the panoramic photographic
construction, Michael Hallett has produced a series of fascinating
colour montages that are works of art in their own right and yet
are also a detailed record of the rebuilding of Birmingham's famous
market and retail centre. The colour images are accompanied by a
new history of the Bullring as a market centre written by historian
Chris Upton and several Birmingham photographers have contributed
their own photographic images showing this historic site over the
years. The book has the official backing of the Birmingham
Alliance, the investment group that was at the heart of the
Bullring redevelopment project.
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