Religious Diversity in European Prisons: Challenges and Implications for Rehabilitation

Book Overview

This book examines how prisons meet challenges of religious diversity, in an era of increasing multiculturalism and globalization. Social scientists studying corrections have noted the important role that religious or spiritual practice can have on rehabilitation, particularly for inmates with coping with stress, mental health and substance abuse issues. In the past, the historical figure of the prison chaplain operated primarily in a Christian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319366807
• ISBN13: 9783319366807
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"