This unique collection brings together international contributors from a range of disciplines to explore crime and responses to crime through a religious/faith-based lens. At a time when religion is under the media spotlight in terms of religiously-motivated hate crime, terrorism and child abuse this book provides an important platform for academic debate. It examines these and other key issues including: faith as a coping strategy, religion as a motivating factor and the role of religion and morality in shaping criminal justice responses.
This collection clearly places religion/faith at the heart of criminological enquiry and illustrates its relevance in addressing wider social issues and would be of benefit to students and academics researching or studying in these areas. It will also be of interest to community and criminal justice practitioners and those with an interest in community engagement and multi-faith work.

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Kim Sadique is a Senior Lecturer in Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University, UK. She has published on hate crime, has delivered training as part of the PREVENT strategy and is on the National Advisory Board for Tell MAMA.
Perry Stanislas is a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, UK, specialising in policing and security matters with an emphasis on international policing.

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Introduction: Religion, Faith and Crime in Context; Kim Sadique and Perry Stanislas.- Part I. Historical and Theoretical Context.- Chapter 1. The Effect of Religion on Crime and Deviancy: Hellfire in the 21st Century; Kim Sadique.- Chapter 2. Is Lex Talionis 'Caput' in a Modern CJS: The Religio-Cultural Context of Punishment; Kim Sadique.- Chapter 3. Disability and Religious Cosmologies-A New Interpretation of Disablist Hate; Alan Roulstone.- Chapter 4. Faith, Mental Health & Deviance: Possession or Illness?; Stephen Handsley.- Chapter 5. Theorising Religion, Crime and the System of Criminal Justice: A Moral Rconomy Perspective; Philip Whitehead.- Part II. Identities and Issues.- Chapter 6. Cultural Beliefs, Witchcraft and Crimes in South Africa; Theodore Petrus.- Chapter 7. Challenges of Late Modernity, Religion, Homophobia, and Crime: Police and Criminal Justice Reform in Jamaica and Uganda; Perry Stanislas.- Chapter 8. Child Abuse and theChurch; Jodi Death.- Chapter 9. Rejected and dejected: The Impacts and Contexts of Islamophobic Violence; Barbara Perry.- Chapter 10. If There is a God I Will be Allowed to Enter Heaven as All Other Martyrs Anders Behring Breivik and Religiously inspired 'Righteous Slaughter'; James Treadwell.- Chapter 11. Polygamy, American Style: Empire, Faith, Law and Bad Public Policy; Jacob W. Petterchak.- Chapter 12. Power and Citizenship in the Social Media Networks: British Muslims, Crime Prevention and Social Engagement; Noureddine Miladi.- Chapter 13. Spirituality and the Black Community: Criminality, Victimisation and Wellbeing; Bertha Ochieng.- Chapter 14. Changing Religious Influences: Young People, Crime and Extremism in Nigeria; Perry Stanislas and Iyah Iyah.- Chapter 15. Faith and Identity in Prison; Alison Booker and Helen Dearnley.