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Lorraine T, Fowler, Director, Ms. Today Offender Rehabilitation in the U. Table 1: Religious Programs at Lieber during To correctly understand the American penal system one must not neglect the important role that religion has played in shaping the character, mission, and practices of the system.

Religiion has taken its place beside other cultural forces — mythical, political, economic, social, philosophical, sexual, familial, racial — in an ongoing public discourse around crime, punishment, rehabilitation, Relifion, power, justice, and social Religion And Society The Role Of Religion that has created and shaped the various systems of punishment and rehabilitation that have operated in this country. This interplay between religion and the developing U. This study is about the relationship between religion and culture in the U. How have the various cultural and religious traditions that have predominated in the U. The relationship between religion, crime, and rehabilitation in the U. Sociologists of religion and criminologists have tended to consider the relationship between religion and the justice system under two broad categories. First, there has been a body of literature examining the relationship between the prevalence and type of religion in a given society and the amount of crime in that society.

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Second, the relationship has been examined from a more individual or microlevel focus. The combination of the sociological and religious studies approach allows one to arrive at a fuller interpretation of the meaning of the socio-religious dialogue about crime and offender rehabilitation.

Establishing the broader social and historical context for the current U. I also describe how a change in the dialogue between religion and culture from the pre to the post-Enlightenment systems helped to shape different penal responses. Before the Enlightenment religion and politics worked closely together in a socially collective context and set up a penal system Anx power, knowledge and social control that sought to maintain the power of the Royal society by punishing but not by rehabilitating people who were found to be guilty of crime. The notion of the individual emerged and a new ordering of the penal system, guided in part by religious ideals, took on the rehabilitation Soiety criminals as one of its aims. Throughout the chapter I raise questions about the ethics of both the pre and postEnlightenment political ordering of the power to punish and conclude that the exercise of the power to punish can be moral in so far as it is rooted in the kind of co-operation among people that Stages of Interpersonal Relationship community.

Chapter two explores in greater detail the ways in which American society has responded throughout its history to issues of crime, punishment and offender rehabilitation and shows how religion has always played a pervasive, if at times hidden, role in that response.]