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Item Weight: 14.6 Oz gtin13: 9780190880835 Item Length: 6.1 in Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2019 Item Width: 9.4 in Book Title: Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System : a Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Language: English ISBN: 9780190880835 Topic: Christian Theology / General, General, Christianity / General, Penology Author: Andrew Skotnicki Number of Pages: 216 Pages Item Height: 0.9 in Genre: Religion, Social Science

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Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System : A Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice, Hardcover by Skotnicki, Andrew, ISBN 019088083X, ISBN-13 9780190880835, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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"--

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