Full Description
At a time when criminal justice systems appear to be in a permanent state of crisis, leading scholars from criminology and theology come together to challenge criminal justice orthodoxy by questioning the dominance of retributive punishment.
This timely and unique contribution considers alternatives that draw on Christian ideas of hope, mercy and restoration.
Promoting cross-disciplinary learning, the book will be of interest to academics and students of criminology, socio-legal studies, legal philosophy, public theology and religious studies, as well as practitioners and policy makers.
Contents
Foreword ‾ Shadd Maruna
Introduction: Public Criminology Meets Public Theology ‾ Andrew Millie
PART I A Place for Hope: Criminology Meets Public Theology
Criminal Justice and the Ethics of Jesus ‾ Anthony Bottoms
Three Intersections in Criminology and Public Theology ‾ Jonathan Burnside
St Paul among the Criminologists ‾ Aaron Pycroft
Interpreting the Cross: Religion, Structures of Feeling, and Penal Theory and Practice ‾ Tim Gorringe
Sin, Shame and Atonement: A Challenge for Secular Redemption ‾ Christopher D. Marshall
Criminology, Public Theology and Hope ‾ Andrew Millie
PART II Criminal Justice, Mercy and Restoration
Mercy Triumphs over Judgement: Intrusive or Enabling Mercy? ‾ Richard Bourne
The 'Quality of Mercy' in Probation Practice ‾ Lol Burke
Loving the Neighbourhood, Loving Enemies: Towards a Theology for (and from) Policing ‾ Alistair McFadyen
Persecuting the Prophets: Inequality, Insanity and Incarceration ‾ Andrew Skotnicki
The Ins and Outs of Signals of Forgiveness in Restorative Justice ‾ Joanna Shapland
The Restorative Gaze ‾ Eric Stoddart
Conclusions ‾ Andrew Millie
