TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skotnicki,Andrew
TI  - Conversion and the rehabilitation of the penal system: a theological rereading of criminal justice 
SN  - 9780190880835 (cloth)
AV  - BR115.J8 S59 2019
U1  - 261.8/336 23
KW  - Christianity and justice
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Rehabilitation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The state of penal ideology and penal affairs -- It is wrong to punish anyone for any reason -- Conversion as inclusion -- What is wrong with rehabilitation? -- How conversion can rehabilitate the penal system
N2  - "The millions of men and women locked up in jails and prisons do not need to be punished, nor should they be punished. Neither should they be treated as objects whose suffering is used to deter others from committing crimes; nor should they be forced to enter programs whose goal is rehabilitation. It is the prison, not prisoners, that needs to be rehabilitated because it has lost touch with the only morally and practically sound justification for confinement: creating the conditions for the detainee to remove the shackles of alienation and violence through the process of conversion wherein the heart's natural humility and compassion are progressively expanded"--
ER  -