Light Through the Bars: Understanding And Rethinking South Africa's Prisons - Tapa blanda

Arackathara, Babychan

 
9781928230687: Light Through the Bars: Understanding And Rethinking South Africa's Prisons
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ISBN 10: 1928230687 ISBN 13: 9781928230687
Editorial: Mercury, 2019

Sinopsis

&;Lock them up and throw away the key!&; is a cry we hear often inSouth Africa today. But this simplistic solution to crime simplyisn&;t working.As Father Babychan Arackathara, a Catholic chaplain tosome of the Western Cape&;s most notorious prisons, shows inthis compassionate reflection on his work, even criminals havestories, and crime invariably has roots. He listens to those storiesand untangles those roots on our behalf, sharing insights into thebrokenness of our society and communities &; and offering real,workable suggestions for fixing them.Can we move to the ideal of hating the crime, but loving thecriminal? What must we do to see that offenders are themselvesvictims and to engage them constructively? How do we break thecycles of addiction, trauma and crime to reach for reconciliationand transformation?

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Father Babychan Arackathara has been working as a chaplain inSouthern African prisons, mostly in the Western Cape, for nearly20 years.He represents Southern Africa at the International Commissionof Catholic Prison Pastoral Care (ICCPPC), an NGO recognisedby the UN and a global Catholic chaplains&; movement whichpromotes Mandela Rules and human rights inside prisons.He has a remarkable track record of restorative justice andreintegration interventions in our correctional centres, whichhave brought about healing among offenders, victims andtheir families. He has trained and empowered prison chaplainsand restorative justice facilitators across the African continent.Light Through The Bars has been written under the guidanceof veteran restorative justice writer David Le Page and renownedSouth African author and editor Helen Moffett.

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Editorial
Mercury
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1928230687
ISBN 13 
9781928230687
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
216
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