Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration

by Amy Levad

Overview

Amy Levad offers a Catholic perspective that directly addresses the concrete issues from a strongly interdisciplinary approach and utilizes the rich liturgical and sacramental resources of penance and Eucharist to offer a theological vision of reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800699918
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Amy Levad is assistant professor of moral theology at theUniversity of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of Restorative Justice: Theories and Practices of Moral Imagination (2011). She has an extensive background in criminology through fieldwork in the criminal justice system in Colorado and Georgia and earned a Ph.D. in social ethics at Emory University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

1 Our Crisis of Justice 11

2 Catholic Responses to Our Criminal Justice Crisis 45

3 A Liturgical and Sacramental Approach to Justice 79

4 A Model for Criminal Justice Reform 111

5 A Movement for Justice 149

Epilogue 197

Bibliography 201

Index 225