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Faith, Identity and Homicide Shona Robinson-Edwards

Faith, Identity and Homicide By Shona Robinson-Edwards

Faith, Identity and Homicide by Shona Robinson-Edwards


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This book explores the role that religion plays in the lives of imprisoned homicide offenders. It seeks to create some clarity of understanding the complex nature of religiosity, narrative, identity, desistance and rehabilitation whilst critically examining elements of social identity that may restrict or enhance this process.

Faith, Identity and Homicide Summary

Faith, Identity and Homicide: Exploring Narratives from a Therapeutic Prison by Shona Robinson-Edwards

This book explores the role that religion plays in the lives of imprisoned homicide offenders. Drawing on interviews in an English prison, the author examines how they narrate their life stories and how religion intersects with other categories to rebuild their personal identities after committing a crime and being labelled as murderers or killers. This book seeks to bridge the gap between macro and micro phenomena, examining religion as both a social institution and a personal experience. It also explores the mediating role of institutions with regards to the nature and extent of their influence upon individual choices and actions, and provides insights into the nature of the therapeutic prison. It seeks to create some clarity of understanding the complex nature of religiosity, narrative, identity, desistance and rehabilitation whilst critically examining elements of social identity that may restrict or enhance this process. It provides a series of recommendations for organisations working with convicted homicide offenders/offenders and speaks to academics and practitioners in the fields of criminology, sociology, psychology and religious/theological studies.

About Shona Robinson-Edwards

Shona Robinson-Edwards is an academic researcher and lecturer in criminology at the University of Warwick, UK. Religion, desistance and rehabilitation are Shona's areas of expertise.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Approaching Faith behind the Prison Walls.- Chapter 3. Homicide and Violent Offences.- Chapter 4. Prison-based Democratic Therapeutic Community.- Chapter 5. Violence in the Life Course.- Chapter 6. Religion in the Life Course.- Chapter 7. Faith, Re-entry and Desistance.- Chapter 8. Moosaa's Journey.- Chapter 9. Critical Understandings of Faith and Identity.- Chapter 10. Concluding Thoughts.

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NPB9783030862183
9783030862183
3030862186
Faith, Identity and Homicide: Exploring Narratives from a Therapeutic Prison by Shona Robinson-Edwards
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021-10-10
306
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