Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xvi

1 - Introduction: Public Criminology Meets Public Theology

pp 1-18

Part I - A Place for Hope: Criminology Meets Public Theology

pp 19-20

2 - Criminal Justice and the Ethics of Jesus

pp 21-44

3 - Three Intersections in Criminology and Public Theology

pp 45-70

4 - St Paul Among the Criminologists

pp 71-92

5 - Interpreting the Cross: Religion, Structures of Feeling, and Penal Theory and Practice

pp 93-110

6 - Sin, Shame and Atonement: A Challenge for Secular Redemption

pp 111-144

7 - Criminology, Public Theology and Hope

pp 145-164

Part II - Criminal Justice, Mercy and Restoration

pp 165-166

8 - Mercy Triumphs Over Judgement: Intrusive or Enabling Mercy?

pp 167-194

9 - The ‘Quality of Mercy’ in Probation Practice

pp 195-216

10 - Loving the Neighbourhood, Loving Enemies: Towards a Theology for (and from) Policing

pp 217-246

11 - Persecuting the Prophets: Inequality, Insanity and Incarceration

pp 247-272

12 - The Ins and Outs of Signals of Forgiveness in Restorative Justice

pp 273-294

13 - The Restorative Gaze

pp 295-318

14 - Conclusions

pp 319-330

Index

pp 331-342