My Brother's Keeper
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My Brother's Keeper

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

My Brother's Keeper

About this book

Ten years ago there were no faith-based units in prisons outside South America. Today, they are spreading all over the world, including the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth. My Brother's Keeper is the first major study of a global phenomenon.

Exploring the roots of faith-based units in South America, it explains why the Prison Service of England and Wales set up the first Christian-based unit in the western world in 1997 - and its rapid expansion. It also explains how, at exactly the same time, the United States introduced Christian-based units - and why they were complimented by interfaith and multifaith initiatives.

At the heart of My Brother's Keeper is an interior account of life inside four Christian-based prison units in England. It draws on the findings of a detailed evaluation conducted by the authors for the Home Office, Prison Service and Kainos Community between 2000 and 2001, including an updated reconviction study. It is an authoritative account of an innovative programme. Its analysis of what works and what doesn't in faith-based units around the world makes My Brother's Keeper a valuable roadmap for all who care about improving prison conditions. It presents a vision of justice that is not just concerned with building more prisons but with rebuilding more prisoners. It argues that by making prisons more human and punishment more humane, faith-based units can be of value - and keep faith in prisons.

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Yes, you can access My Brother's Keeper by Jonathan Burnside,Joanna Adler,Nancy Loucks,Gerry Rose,Joanna R. Adler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Criminology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Willan
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781843920618
eBook ISBN
9781134040186
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Guide to organisations
  7. Foreword
  8. Authors' preface and acknowledgements
  9. Dedication
  10. epigraph1
  11. Prologue
  12. 1 The prison that started it all
  13. 2 From Cursillo to Prison: the story of Kairos
  14. 3 The rise and fall of Kairos-APAC
  15. 4 Kainos Community: views from the inside
  16. 5 Kainos Community: views from the top
  17. 6 Kainos Community and religious freedom
  18. 7 Navigating by the heavens: Horizon Communities (formerly Kairos Horizon Communities)
  19. 8 Preparing Evangelists: InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI)
  20. 9 Psycho-social impact of Kainos
  21. 10 The impact of Kainos and Christian-based units on recidivism
  22. 11 Keeping faith in prison:the promise of faith-based units
  23. Appendix A Logistic Regression results for the reanalysis of data from Johnson et al. (1997, Chapter 10)
  24. Appendix B The Comparison sample as a ‘standard' (see Chapter 10)
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index