Pastoral Care for the Incarcerated Hope Deferred, Humanity Diminished?

This important, lucid book burns with compassion for those incarcerated in prisons, seeking to find authentic, realistic ways of enhancing humanity and hope in constrained, inadequate environments. Beedon’s well-researched text uniquely illuminates the situation of the many prisoners still held unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beedon, David Kirk
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Where and How to Start
  • Chapter 2: Modern Mass Incarceration: Can it be Humanised?
  • Chapter 3: A case in point: a socio-historical critique of indeterminate sentences
  • Chapter 4: Entering Lived Experience: From Theory To Reality
  • Chapter 5: Tales from the Shadow of Despair
  • Chapter 6: Seeking Humanity and Hope
  • Chapter 7: A Pastoral Response
  • Chapter 8: Custodial Compassion: A Pastoral Paradox
  • Chapter 9: Loose Ends, Disappearances and Leavings: A Reflective Pastoral Epilogue