Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice, Sixth Edition, offers a clear and
convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with …

Luke Galen (2012) offers a timely analysis of associations between religiosity and prosocial
and antisocial attitudes and behaviors. After identifying 10 points of agreement, I raise 8 …

Research has shown that incarcerated individuals experience significantly higher rates of
trauma prior to and during incarceration, compared with the general population. However …

Participation in religious services is associated with numerous aspects of human flourishing,
including happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose …

Research has shown that prison visitation is associated with reduced recidivism. This study
analyzes whether visits from community volunteers (CVs)—specifically clergy and mentors …

Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly
welcomed" faith-based" providers offering services at no cost to help meet the needs of …

Why do individuals exposed to the same environment turn out so differently, with some
engaging in crime and others abiding by societal rules and norms? Why are males involved …

We examine how religion contributes to rehabilitation, which we conceptualize as moral
reform and operationalize in terms of self-identity, existential belief, and character. We …

Prior research tends to find an inverse relationship between inmates' religion and
misconduct in prison, but this relationship has lacked empirical explanation. We therefore …

Objectives To examine the independent and interdependent roles of baseline religious
support during incarceration and within-individual changes in religious support on …