Pastoral Care for the Incarcerated

Hope Deferred, Humanity Diminished?

David Kirk Beedon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 270 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-13271-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity? Employing the multi-disciplinary approach of practical theology, this ethnographic enquiry will be a guide for chaplains and all who strive to embody compassion wherever human flourishing is undermined. The book's structure follows the pastoral cycle method from practical theology, remaining context-based and practice-focused throughout. Pastoral insights are illustrated with personal, poetic and movingly reflective material drawn from the lived experience of indeterminately sentenced men who did not know if or when they would be ever released. The author, a former prison chaplain, remains reflexively and humanely present in the text, modelling the profound humane regard and pastoral presence that is central to this work. This book will take the reader deeply into penal spaces on a journey of both compassion and hope.

David Kirk Beedon is an Anglican Priest and former chaplain in Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales. In 2020 he was awarded a Doctorate in Practical Theology for his prison-based research.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Where and How to Start.- Chapter 2: Modern Mass Incarceration: Can it be Humanised?.- Chapter 3: A case in point: a socio-historical critique of indeterminate sentences.- Chapter 4: Entering Lived Experience: From Theory To Reality.- Chapter 5: Tales from the Shadow of Despair.- Chapter 6: Seeking Humanity and Hope.- Chapter 7: A Pastoral Response.- Chapter 8: Custodial Compassion: A Pastoral Paradox.- Chapter 9: Loose Ends, Disappearances and Leavings: A Reflective Pastoral Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2022
Zusatzinfo	XI, 270 p. 18 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Schlagworte	criminal justice system • Imprisonment for Public Protection • Independent Monitoring Board • Mass Incarceration • Prison Visitors
ISBN-10	3-031-13271-8 / 3031132718
ISBN-13	978-3-031-13271-1 / 9783031132711
Zustand	Neuware