A01=Brad Stoddard
Author_Brad Stoddard
carceral state
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Charitable Choice
Department of Corrections
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faith-based
faith-based correctional reform in Florida
faith-based dorm
faith-based initiative
faith-based organizations
faith-based prison
Florida
Florida Department of Corrections
George W. Bush
incarceration
incarceration in Florida
Jeb Bush
law
mass incarceration
prison
prison chaplains in Florida
race
religion
religion and incarceration
religion and law
religious lives of prisoners
Product details
- ISBN 9781469663081
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida's Department of Corrections claims to have found a partial remedy in the form of faith and character-based correctional institutions (FCBIs). While claiming to be open to all religious traditions, FCBIs are almost always run by Protestants situated within the politics of the Christian right. The religious programming is typically run by the incarcerated along with volunteers from outside the prison. Stoddard takes the reader deep inside FCBIs, analyzing the subtle meanings and difficult choices with which the incarcerated, prison administrators, staff, and chaplains grapple every day. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research and historical analysis, Brad Stoddard argues that FCBIs build on and demonstrate the compatibility of conservative Christian politics and neoliberal economics.
Even without authoritative data on whether FCBIs are assisting rehabilitation and reducing recidivism rates, similar programs are appearing across the nation-only Iowa has declared them illegal under non-establishment-of-religion statutes. Exposing the intricate connections among incarceration, neoliberal economics, and religious freedom, Stoddard makes a timely contribution to debates about religion's role in American society.
Even without authoritative data on whether FCBIs are assisting rehabilitation and reducing recidivism rates, similar programs are appearing across the nation-only Iowa has declared them illegal under non-establishment-of-religion statutes. Exposing the intricate connections among incarceration, neoliberal economics, and religious freedom, Stoddard makes a timely contribution to debates about religion's role in American society.
Brad Stoddard is assistant professor of religious studies at McDaniel College.
