Religious Diversity in European Prisons Challenges and Implications for Rehabilitation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Becci, Irene (Editor), Roy, Olivier (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Religious Studies, general.; Human Rights.

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. In the past, the historical figure...