More God, Less Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More God, Less Crime write by Byron Johnson. This book was released on 2011-05-15. More God, Less Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In More God, Less Crime renowned criminologist Byron R. Johnson proves that religion can be a powerful antidote to crime. The book describes how faith communities, congregations, and faith-based organizations are essential in forming partnerships necessary to provide the human and spiritual capital to effectively address crime, offender rehabilitation, and the substantial aftercare problems facing former prisoners. There is scattered research literature on religion and crime but until now, there has never been one publication that systematically and rigorously analyzes what we know from this largely overlooked body of research in a lay-friendly format. The data shows that when compared to current strategies, faith-based approaches to crime prevention bring added value in targeting those factors known to cause crime: poverty, lack of education, and unemployment. In an age of limited fiscal resources, Americans can’t afford a criminal justice system that turns its nose up at volunteer efforts that could not only work better than the abysmal status quo, but also save billions of dollars at the same time. This book provides readers with practical insights and recommendations for a faith-based response that could do just that.
God vs. the Gavel
God vs. the Gavel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God vs. the Gavel write by Marci A. Hamilton. This book was released on 2005-05-30. God vs. the Gavel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. God vs. the Gavel challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection. While religious conduct provides many benefits to society, it is not always benign. The thesis of the book is that anyone who harms another person should be governed by the laws that govern everyone else - and truth be told, religion is capable of great harm. This may not sound like a radical proposition, but it has been under assault since the 1960s. The majority of academics and many religious organizations would construct a fortress around religious conduct that would make it extremely difficult to prosecute child abuse by clergy, medical neglect of children by faith-healers, and other socially unacceptable behaviors. This book intends to change the course of the public debate over religion by bringing to the public's attention the tactics of religious entities to avoid the law and therefore harm others.
God Bless Crime
God Bless Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God Bless Crime write by Raymond Boyd. This book was released on 2017-01-07. God Bless Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Holding your breath won't help, and neither will stepping on a tack in your shoe. If you ever find yourself across the table from Raymond Boyd and his polygraph, he'll know whether you're honest or not. In God Bless Crime; It's Been Good to Me, follow Ray's story from nightclub emcee to president of his own company and everything in between. Full of Boyd's signature screwball humor, you'll discover where one Tennessee sheriff finds his liquor, why Boyd has stamps that proclaim, "Go shit in your hat," and how he and others have tricked many a dimwitted criminal. With a life full of stories spanning the range of human emotion, each one will leave you eager to see what case he cracks next.
When Texas Prison Scams Religion
When Texas Prison Scams Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Texas Prison Scams Religion write by Michael G. Maness. This book was released on 2023-05-22. When Texas Prison Scams Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Texas Prison Scams Religion exposes corruption in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, especially in the abuse of religion. In many ways, this book is a literature review of 1,800-plus works that defends freedom of conscience in prison while exposing the unconstitutionality of the seminary program that “buys faith with favor” from prisoners. The state veritably ordains the prisoner a “Field Minister” that represents the offices of the Governor, TDCJ Director, and wardens throughout the prison. Therein, TDCJ lies about neutrality in a program all about Christian missions and lies again in falsely certifying elementary Bible students as counselors. Why is the director sponsoring psychopaths counseling psychopaths? In fact, TDCJ pays $314 million a year to UTMB for psychiatric care and receives not a single report of the care given, and worse, for UTMB generates no reports itself. The underbelly TDCJ’s executive culture of cover up is exposed. TDCJ has hired the lowest qualified of the applicant pool many times in the last 25 years and regularly destroys statistics on violence. TDCJ Dir. Collier led the prison to model Louisiana Warden Burl Cain, the most scandal-ridden in penal history according to a host of published news stories for 20 years. Therein, Collier led TDCJ to favor the smallest segment of religious society within Evangelical Dominionism. Texas has no business endorsing the truth of any religion over another. We close with a proposal that utilizes the 400,000,000 hours of officer contact over ten years as a definitive influence in contrast to a commissioner that spends less than 10 minutes on each decision. Maness has been lobbying Austin for 15 years to definitively access staff for his “100,000 Mothers’ 1% Certainty Parole Texas Constitutional Amendment,” which would revolutionize prison culture and save Texans millions of the dollars.
May God Have Mercy
May God Have Mercy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook May God Have Mercy write by John C. Tucker. This book was released on 1998-08-10. May God Have Mercy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In some states by law, in others by tradition, judges imposing a sentence of death complete the grim ritual with the words "May God have mercy on your soul." In 1982, in Grundy, Virginia, a young miner named Roger Coleman was sentenced to death for the murder of his sister-in-law. Ten years later, the sentence was carried out, despite the extraordinary efforts of Kitty Behan, a brilliant and dedicated young lawyer who devoted two years of her life to gathering evidence of Coleman's innocence, evidence so compelling that media around the world came to question the verdict. The courts, ruling on technicalities, refused to hear the new evidence and witnesses. Finally, the governor of Virginia ordered a lie-detector test to be administered on the morning of Coleman's scheduled execution, and in a chair that to Coleman surely looked like nothing so much as an electric chair. In John Tucker's telling, this story is an emotional and unforgettable roller-coaster ride from the awful night of the crime to the equally awful night of the execution. Perhaps it was not Roger Coleman whose soul was in need of God's mercy, but the judges, prosecutors, and politicians who procured his death.
