Good punishment? : Christian moral practice and U.S. imprisonment /

Logan, James Samuel.

Good punishment? : Christian moral practice and U.S. imprisonment / James Samuel Logan. - Grand Rapids, MI. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2008. - x, 261 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The problem of imprisonment in the United States -- Re/producing criminality and the prison-industrial complex -- The collateral social consequences of large-scale imprisonment -- Prisons and social alienation -- Mining Stanley Hauerwas : foundations for a Christian social ethics of good punishment -- Good punishment : the possibility of a politics of healing memories in the public square -- Good punishment : toward a politics of ontological intimacy.

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Imprisonment--United States.
Prisons--United States.
Punishment--United States.
Punishment--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christian ethics.
Christian ethics.
Imprisonment.
Prisons.
Punishment.
Punishment--Religious aspects--Christianity.


United States.

HV 9471 .L64 2008