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- Discusses the important role that religion plays in criminal behaviour and the criminal justice system
- Explores the impact of religion on the rehabilitation of offenders and in peace-making efforts
- Offers an integrated theoretical framework to summarise existing literature and to outline future research
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders. The authors argue that in order to understand how religion is related to each of these domains it is essential to recognise the evolutionary origins of religion as well as how genetic and cultural evolutionary processes have shaped its essential characteristics. Durrant and Poppelwell posit that the capacity of religion to bind individuals into socially cohesive ‘moral communities’ can help us to understand its complex relationship with cooperation, crime, punishment, inter-group conflict and forgiveness. An original and innovative study, this book will be of special interest to criminologists and other social scientists interested in the role of religion in crime, punishment, intergroup conflict and law.
Keywords
- faith
- pro-social behavior
- morality
- war
- terrorism
- antisocial behavior
- secular
- peace building
- supernatural punishment
- cultural evolution
- self-control
- social-bonding
- prejudice
- intergroup violence
- moral foundations theory
- rehabilitation
- faith based programmes
- forgiveness
- transitional justice
- religion and society
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Russil Durrant
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School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Zoe Poppelwell
About the authors
Russil Durrant is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Zoe Poppelwell is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Anthropology programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion, Crime and Punishment
Book Subtitle: An Evolutionary Perspective
Authors: Russil Durrant, Zoe Poppelwell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64428-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64427-1Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87792-1Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64428-8Published: 17 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 224
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and Society, Critical Criminology, Organized Crime, Criminological Theory, Religion and Society