Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores 9780830887736, 9780830845293

Table of contents :
Introduction

Part I: The Roots and Evolution of Mass Incarceration
1. The War on Drugs
2. How Did We Get Here? From Black Codes to Neoslavery
3. Beyond Law and Order
4. Three Overlooked Pipelines: Mental Health, Private Prisons, and Immigration
5. The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Part II: The Church's Witness and Testimony
6. Protestant Reformers: Prophetic Activism, Nonviolence, and God’s Wrath
7. The Prisoner's Pastor: Chaplaincy and Theology's Institutional Impact
8. The Spirit of Punishment: Atonement, Penal Substitution, and the Wrath of God
9. Atonement and Sanctifying Retribution
10. Divine Justice Is Inherently Restorative
11. Holy Interruptions: Dismantling Mass Incarceration
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index