Islam In American Prisons

Author : Hamid Reza Kusha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351925990

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Islam in American Prisons by Hamid Reza Kusha Pdf

The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American state and federal penitentiaries. This growth poses a powerful challenge to American penal philosophy, structured on the ideal of rehabilitating offenders through penance and appropriate penal measures. Islam in American Prisons argues that prisoners converting to Islam seek an alternative form of redemption, one that poses a powerful epistemological as well as ideological challenge to American penology. Meanwhile, following the events of 9/11, some prison inmates have converted to radical anti-Western Islam and have become sympathetic to the goals and tactics of the Al-Qa'ida organization. This new study examines this multifaceted phenomenon and makes a powerful argument for the objective examination of the rehabilitative potentials of faith-based organizations in prisons, including the faith of those who convert to Islam.

Author : SpearIt
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506904887

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American Prisons by SpearIt Pdf

This book is a critical exploration of prisons in contemporary America. Paying special attention to race and Islam, the work draws on a range of data and sources, including interviews and written correspondence with current and ex-prisoners, documentary research, and congressional hearings on topics that include criminal justice and religion, culture, conversion, radicalization, and reform. Keywords: American Prisons, Islam, Muslim, Conversion, Culture, Criminal Justice, Race, Religion, Latinos, Radicalization

Author : S.I Khan
Publisher : Jade Media Group LLC
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Incarcerated Muslim by S.I Khan Pdf

A simple, cohesive explanation about the racial disparity of African American Muslims within the prison system. It examines and explains the misinformed views that some Americans have concerning Al Islam.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 162637550X

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Muslims in US Prisons by Anonim Pdf

Author : SPEARIT.,SpearIt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Muslim prisoners
ISBN : 9780520384842

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Muslim Prisoner Litigation by SPEARIT.,SpearIt Pdf

Since the early 1960s, incarcerated Muslims have used legal action to establish their rights to religious freedom behind bars and improve the conditions of their incarceration. Inspired by Islamic principles of justice and equality, these efforts have played a critical role in safeguarding the civil rights not only of imprisoned Muslims but of all those confined to carceral settings. In this sweeping book­­--the first to examine this history in depth--SpearIt writes a missing chapter in the history of Islam in America while illuminating new perspectives on the role of religious expression and experience in the courtroom.

Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199862634

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The Oxford Handbook of American Islam by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad,Jane I. Smith Pdf

In this volume 30 of the field's top scholars examine historical and contemporary aspects of American Islam, and explore the meaning of religious identity in the context of race, ethnicity, gender, and politics.

Author : Matthew Wilkinson,Lamia Irfan,Muzammil Quraishi,Mallory (University of Fribourg Schneuwly Purdie, Switzerland),Mallory Schneuwly Purdie
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447363606

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Islam in Prison by Matthew Wilkinson,Lamia Irfan,Muzammil Quraishi,Mallory (University of Fribourg Schneuwly Purdie, Switzerland),Mallory Schneuwly Purdie Pdf

Are you a prison officer who feels nervous about dealing with Muslims on the wings? Are you a prison chaplain who wants to know how your chaplaincy affects the lives of prisoners? Are you a policymaker who needs a robust base of evidence for Islam in prison? Are you an academic or a journalist seeking ground-breaking social science in a contentious field? Based on original evidence from 279 Muslim prisoners and 79 prison officers, we explore how Muslims come to be incarcerated, how the practice of Islam affects prison life and rehabilitation, the types of Islam and the effects of Islamic conversion in prison and the professional practice of officers and chaplains. We also investigate the common belief that incarceration fosters Islamist extremism and suggest improvements to faith provision and rehabilitative opportunities for Muslim prisoners.

Author : Nawal H. Ammar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Corrections
ISBN : 1626371687

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Muslims in US Prisons by Nawal H. Ammar Pdf

How realistic are media portrayals of radical, ¿homegrown¿ Islamic terrorists filling US prisons? With prisons a fertile recruiting ground for Islam, what impact does the religion have on life behind bars? Muslims in US Prisons systematically explores the cultural, legal, political, and religious issues shaping the Muslim prison experience. The authors probe the topic from the perspectives of both prisoners and the criminal justice system. In the process, they illuminate larger issues of race and imprisonment, inmate culture, and rehabilitation. The result is a revealing look at an often sensationalized but understudied population.

Author : Garrett Felber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469653839

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Those Who Know Don't Say by Garrett Felber Pdf

Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. In doing so, he reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on school desegregation and voting rights. The book examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalists to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination. It captures the ambiguous place of the Nation of Islam specifically, and Black nationalist organizing more broadly, during an era which has come to be defined by nonviolent resistance, desegregation campaigns, and racial liberalism. By provocatively documenting the interplay between law enforcement and Muslim communities, Felber decisively shows how state repression and Muslim organizing laid the groundwork for the modern carceral state and the contemporary prison abolition movement which opposes it. Exhaustively researched, the book illuminates new sites and forms of political struggle as Muslims prayed under surveillance in prison yards and used courtroom political theater to put the state on trial. This history captures familiar figures in new ways--Malcolm X the courtroom lawyer and A. Philip Randolph the Harlem coalition builder--while highlighting the forgotten organizing of rank-and-file activists in prisons such as Martin Sostre. This definitive account is an urgent reminder that Islamophobia, state surveillance, and police violence have deep roots in the state repression of Black communities during the mid-20th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African American Muslims
ISBN : 0955877911

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Black America, Prisons and Radical Islam by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Beckford,D. Joly,F. Khosrokhavar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230501300

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Muslims in Prison by J. Beckford,D. Joly,F. Khosrokhavar Pdf

The growth of Islam in Europe is reflected in the increasing numbers of Muslims in British and French prisons, but authorities have responded differently to the challenges presented by Muslim prisoners in each country. The findings of three years of intensive research in a variety of prisons show that British prisons facilitate and control the practice d of Islam, whereas French prisons discourage it and thereby sow the seeds of extremism. The policy implications of these ironic findings are examined in detail.

Author : Gabriele Marranci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000182958

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Faith, Ideology and Fear by Gabriele Marranci Pdf

Based on four years anthropological research within prisons and Muslim communities in the UK, this book offers a unique discussion of the relationship between the experience of prison among Muslims and the formation of religious identity. Gabriele Marranci thoroughly examines Muslim religious life in prison, the work of Muslim chaplains and imams (and the overall impact that they have on Muslim prisoners), providing an analysis of the current prison policies aiming to prevent radicalisation, and discusses the counterproductive results of an increasing young Muslim presence in prisons, as well as the reaction of the Muslim communities to this increase. Marranci suggests that the prison environment, and increasing restrictions therein, are linked to the fear of radicalization, and are facilitating identity processes in which Islam turns into an ideology. This important study goes on to make a thorough examination of the lives of former Muslim prisoners, showing how they are particularly vulnerable to extremists' recruitment, and explaining the dynamics which have led, in certain cases, to their recommitting offences, or embarking on a path of radicalization.

Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814725443

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The Spectacular Few by Mark S. Hamm Pdf

“Mark Hamm is, without doubt, the world’s leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture,. Beautifully written, it is the most complete, and the most empirically rigorous, account of this phenomenon to date. A must read for anyone interested in homegrown radicalization.”—Peter Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King’s College London The Madrid train bombers, shoe-bomber Richard Reid, al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the 9/11 attacks—all were led by men radicalized behind bars. Today’s prisons are hotbeds for personal transformation toward terrorist beliefs and actions due to the increasingly chaotic nature of prison life caused by mass incarceration. In The Spectacular Few, Mark Hamm, a former prison warden, demonstrates how prisoners use criminal cunning, collective resistance and nihilism to incite terrorism. Drawing from a wide range of sources, The Spectacular Few imagines the texture of prisoners’ lives. Hamm covers their criminal thinking styles, the social networks that influenced them, and personal “turning points” that set them on the pathway to violent extremism. Hamm argues that in order to understand terrorism today, we must come to terms with how prisoners are treated behind bars. Mark S. Hamm is a former prison warden from Arizona and currently Professor of Criminology at Indiana State University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Terrorism Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. His books include Terrorism as Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond (NYU Press, 2007). Alternative Criminology series

Author : Joshua Dubler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466837119

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Down in the Chapel by Joshua Dubler Pdf

A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing the workings of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, rather ordinary. And then one of them disappears. Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. We learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, and commune with their makers. We observe a variety of Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, and others, at prayer and in study and song. And we listen in as an interloping scholar of religion tries to make sense of it all. When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as con artists who fake their piety, or pitied as wretches who cling to faith because faith is all they have left. Joshua Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its complexity. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, Down in the Chapel explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.

Author : Tayba Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979834474

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Islam 99 by Tayba Foundation Pdf

For billions of Muslims around the world, learning about ritual purification, prayer, and the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is just an ordinary part of living. But for Muslims behind bars, the reality is much different. Although Islam is the fastest spreading religion in American prisons, access to reliable, high quality educational materials about the faith are scarcely available to American prisoners. This text endeavors to close that gap.It covers everything from the fundamental aspects of belief in God, to the nuanced ways that Muslims in prison can apply the teachings of Islam. Full with diagrams, real life examples, and a section dedicated to how to lead a good life in prison, this book is a practical support for incarcerated Muslims across America.