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Wellbeing and beliefs among prisoners

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Published
Fri 27 Nov 2020
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Do prisoners with religious beliefs and behaviours experience their incarceration differently? How does their emotional state affect the likelihood of rehabilitation, or repeat offences? Professors Sung Joon Jang and Byron R. Johnson at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, examine the effects of religion on offenders in the South African correctional system.

Read more about their work in Research Outreach, or read the original paper: https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2019.1689286

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