[The Inclusion of Faith-Based Practices in the Treatment of Juvenile Offenders]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Background1

Research Questions3

Reliability3

Ethical Issues in Research5

Justification for Choice of Literature5

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW6

Effects on Individuals6

Inspiration for Faith-Based Practices and Communities10

CHAPTER 03: METHODOLOGY14

Research Design14

Benefits of Qualitative Research14

Literature Search15

Rationale for a Qualitative Study15

Pitfalls and Problems16

Timeline16

References18

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Background

In the last ten years, the reentry and rehabilitation of prisoners has become a burning social and community problem as well as a challenge for the governmental policies. There are approximately 600,000 prisoners who are released from the federal and state prison on an annual basis. If the juvenile, are taken into account then approximately 700,000 prisoners with physical, vocational, education, drug treatment and mental health needs enters the society across the state every year. The magnitude of this issue is rising with the increasing prison population. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, almost two third of the released criminals and prisoners are likely to get rearrested in the span of three years and almost half would be reincarnated. As the population of prisoners has multiplied over time, the policy makers (past and the current administration at the presidential level, republican and democratic alike) have shown interest in the faith based practices for improving the social problems. Naturally, the interest in the improvement of outcome of reentry of released prisoners through faith-based practices is increasing, predominantly for juvenile offenders. Irrespective of the interest mentioned above, a few fundamental questions are still unaddressed:

What does a faith-based program or practice mean?

How can a faith-based program improve the behavioral effect among the juvenile offenders?

What is substantiation related to the faith based practices impacts?

What is the serious execution issues associated with the impacts and operations of faith based practices for juvenile offenders?

The answers to mentioned question can help update the faith-based practices and criminological theory for the improvement of outcomes among the juvenile offenders who are released from prison every year. The research about faith-based practices provides a chance to the criminologists to developed more shaded theories of the association between crime and faith. A few measurements and conceptualizations of faith report a very strong relationship of recidivism and crime. In the same way, the faith may influence the level of crime and faith in crime may be moderated or mediated by other forms of conventional and classic crime factors. For practitioners and policymakers, the advances in theory can provide the ground for development of more consistent and coherent practices, including critical dimensions identification that these practices are going to be very ...