Religion, Faith and Crime Theories, Identities and Issues
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-motiva
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EDITED BY
KIM SADIQUE & PERRY STANISLAS
Religion, Faith and Crime
Kim Sadique • Perry Stanislas Editors
Religion, Faith and Crime Theories, Identities and Issues
Editors Kim Sadique School of Applied Social Sciences De Montfort University Leicester, United Kingdom
Perry Stanislas School of Applied Social Sciences De Montfort University Leicester, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-45619-9 ISBN 978-1-137-45620-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-45620-5
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This book is dedicated to Reuben Sadique, Rebecca Stanislas and in loving memory of Anna Doody.
Acknowledgements
The editors would like to thank all of the contributors; given competing priorities and deadlines we are truly grateful for having been on the ‘todo list’ of so many busy people and for the excellent chapters produced by them all for this book. Thanks also to Palgrave Macmillan, especially Julia Willan who was with us from the beginning, Harriet Barker and, last but not least, Dominic Walker who took over the baton for the final leg and was especially patient. The impetus for this book came out of a need for teaching material on this topic, as well as through discussions with other academics at conferences about religion being ‘criminology’s forgotten variable’. At a time when religion is under the media spotlight for religiously motivated hate crimes, terrorism and child abuse, providing the platform for academic debate was a personal mission for both of us—we hope this book do
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