Religious faith in correctional contexts / Kent R. Kerley.

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Kerley (justice sciences, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham) enters the difficult area of prisoner studies, which many institutional review boards, professional codes of ethics, and legalities inhibit, but he does so very well. He focuses on the role religion plays in helping inmates relate better to the prison environment, encourage hope, and focus better on strategies to remain free upon release. The author admits that many religious conversions are false, or that many backslide afterwards. His summaries of each chapter are well documented, and he gives good advice for further study. The book discusses the role of chaplains, community faith groups, the inmates, and others in religiosity. The chapter on females, in which Kerley contends that their experience is worse than that of males, mainly because of children, is problematical. This seems to reflect society's prejudice against males more than it reveals a more severe punishment for women. For both criminal justice and religious studies at any level. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. M. G. Meacham Valdosta State University