Religion, Faith and Crime [electronic resource] : Theories, Identities and Issues / edited by Kim Sadique, Perry Stanislas.
Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: XIX, 385 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781137456205
- Social sciences
- Religion and sociology
- International criminal law
- Crime -- Sociological aspects
- Juvenile delinquents
- Corrections
- Punishment
- Social Sciences
- Crime and Society
- Prison and Punishment
- Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice
- Sociology of Religion
- Religion and Society
- International Criminal Law
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Introduction: Religion, Faith and Crime in Context; Kim Sadique and Perry Stanislas -- Part I. Historical and Theoretical Context -- Chapter 1. The Effect of Religion on Crime and Deviancy: Hellfire in the 21st Century; Kim Sadique -- Chapter 2. Is Lex Talionis ‘Caput’ in a Modern CJS: The Religio-Cultural Context of Punishment; Kim Sadique -- Chapter 3. Disability and Religious Cosmologies-A New Interpretation of Disablist Hate; Alan Roulstone -- Chapter 4. Faith, Mental Health & Deviance: Possession or Illness?; Stephen Handsley -- Chapter 5. Theorising Religion, Crime and the System of Criminal Justice: A Moral Rconomy Perspective; Philip Whitehead -- Part II. Identities and Issues -- Chapter 6. Cultural Beliefs, Witchcraft and Crimes in South Africa; Theodore Petrus -- Chapter 7. Challenges of Late Modernity, Religion, Homophobia, and Crime: Police and Criminal Justice Reform in Jamaica and Uganda; Perry Stanislas -- Chapter 8. Child Abuse and the Church; Jodi Death -- Chapter 9. “Rejected and dejected”: The Impacts and Contexts of Islamophobic Violence; Barbara Perry -- Chapter 10. “If There is a God I Will be Allowed to Enter Heaven as All Other Martyrs” – Anders Behring Breivik and Religiously inspired ‘Righteous Slaughter’; James Treadwell -- Chapter 11. Polygamy, American Style: Empire, Faith, Law and Bad Public Policy; Jacob W. Petterchak -- Chapter 12. Power and Citizenship in the Social Media Networks: British Muslims, Crime Prevention and Social Engagement; Noureddine Miladi -- Chapter 13. Spirituality and the Black Community: Criminality, Victimisation and Wellbeing; Bertha Ochieng -- Chapter 14. Changing Religious Influences: Young People, Crime and Extremism in Nigeria; Perry Stanislas and Iyah Iyah -- Chapter 15. Faith and Identity in Prison; Alison Booker and Helen Dearnley. .
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