Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Kerley, Kent R.

Title Religious faith in correctional contexts / Kent R. Kerley.

Publication Info. Boulder ; London : FirstForumPress, a division of Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2014.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  365.66 K39R    Check Shelf
Description viii, 189 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages179-186) and index.
Contents The faith of captives -- The relationship between religion and criminal behavior -- Faith-based prison programs and prison ministry workers -- The conversion experience -- Maintaining change for men -- Maintaining change for women -- The halfway house experience -- Returning to the free world -- The future of faith -- Appendix : Studying faith in correctional contexts.
Summary Based on data from interviews held in Alabama and Mississippi.
Subject Prisoners -- Religious life.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst00883537
Prisoners -- Religious life. (OCoLC)fst01077190
ISBN 9781935049913 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1935049917 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
-->
Add a Review