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African American incarceration
American Criminal Justice System
American Juvenile Justice System
American Muslim
American Muslim Community
American Penal Institutions
American Penitentiaries
American Penology
Author_Hamid Reza Kusha
Black America
Capital Punishments
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Colonial Penologists
correctional system analysis
criminal
Criminogenic Impacts
criminology research
Delinquency
disproportional
Disproportionate Incarceration
Disproportionate Minority Confinement
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faith-based rehabilitation
Good Life
incarceration
institutions
justice
Muslim Inmates
Muslim Mosque
penal
Penal Measures
Penal Philosophy
Penal Settings
penitentiaries
penology
philosophy
Predatory Crime
radicalisation studies
religion offender rehabilitation outcomes
religious conversion prisons
Scientific Jury Selection
system
Violate
White America
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781840147223
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American state and federal penitentiaries. This growth poses a powerful challenge to American penal philosophy, structured on the ideal of rehabilitating offenders through penance and appropriate penal measures. Islam in American Prisons argues that prisoners converting to Islam seek an alternative form of redemption, one that poses a powerful epistemological as well as ideological challenge to American penology. Meanwhile, following the events of 9/11, some prison inmates have converted to radical anti-Western Islam and have become sympathetic to the goals and tactics of the Al-Qa'ida organization. This new study examines this multifaceted phenomenon and makes a powerful argument for the objective examination of the rehabilitative potentials of faith-based organizations in prisons, including the faith of those who convert to Islam.
Hamid Reza Kusha is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of East Carolina, Greenville, USA.
