Religion, Crime and Punishment

An Evolutionary Perspective
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-64427-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4149 g

This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders. The authors argue that in order to understand how religion is related to each of these domains it is essential to recognise the evolutionary origins of religion as well as how genetic and cultural evolutionary processes have shaped its essential characteristics. Durrant and Poppelwell posit that the capacity of religion to bind individuals into socially cohesive ‘moral communities’ can help us to understand its complex relationship with cooperation, crime, punishment, inter-group conflict and forgiveness. An original and innovative study, this book will be of special interest to criminologists and other social scientists interested in the role of religion in crime, punishment, intergroup conflict and law.    

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poppelwell, Zoe

Durrant, Russil

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why Religion Matters.- 2. Evolutionary Approaches to Understanding Religion.- 3. Religion, Crime, and Prosocial Behaviour.- 4. The Dark Side of Religion? Prejudice, Intergroup Conflict, and War.- 5. Religion, Punishment, and the Law.- 6. Religion, Rehabilitation, and Reconciliation

Über Autor(innen)

Russil Durrant is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 

Zoe Poppelwell is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Anthropology programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.