Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures, infographics, images and tables
- List of abbreviations
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: A tale of three prisoners
- 1 Where does Islam come from and who are Muslim prisoners?
- 2 What is Islam in prison?
- 3 Finding their faith: why do prisoners choose Islam?
- 4 What types of Islam do prisoners follow?
- 5 Mainstream Islam in prison
- 6 Islamism and Islamist Extremism in prison
- 7 The lives of Muslim prisoners: opportunities and risks
- 8 Caring for Muslim prisoners: Muslim prison chaplaincy
- 9 Managing Muslim prisoners: treading a middle path between naïvety and suspicion
- Conclusion: The Virtuous Cycle of Rehabilitation and Avoiding the Vicious Cycle of Extremism
- Appendix 1 Theoretical framework
- Appendix 2 Methodology
- Appendix 3 Ethics, recruitment, data analysis and data management
- Appendix 4 Descriptions of our research prisons
- Appendix 5 How UCIP ascertained the Worldviews of Muslim prisoners
- Glossary of key terms and important names
- References
- Index
Appendix 1 - Theoretical framework
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures, infographics, images and tables
- List of abbreviations
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: A tale of three prisoners
- 1 Where does Islam come from and who are Muslim prisoners?
- 2 What is Islam in prison?
- 3 Finding their faith: why do prisoners choose Islam?
- 4 What types of Islam do prisoners follow?
- 5 Mainstream Islam in prison
- 6 Islamism and Islamist Extremism in prison
- 7 The lives of Muslim prisoners: opportunities and risks
- 8 Caring for Muslim prisoners: Muslim prison chaplaincy
- 9 Managing Muslim prisoners: treading a middle path between naïvety and suspicion
- Conclusion: The Virtuous Cycle of Rehabilitation and Avoiding the Vicious Cycle of Extremism
- Appendix 1 Theoretical framework
- Appendix 2 Methodology
- Appendix 3 Ethics, recruitment, data analysis and data management
- Appendix 4 Descriptions of our research prisons
- Appendix 5 How UCIP ascertained the Worldviews of Muslim prisoners
- Glossary of key terms and important names
- References
- Index
Summary
• UCIP brought together a multidisciplinary and diverse team, combining expertise in theology, criminology and the sociology of religion, which was integrated under one overarching theoretical umbrella.
• To accomplish this integration, the overarching theoretical framework for UCIP was drawn from an academic philosophy called critical realism and, in particular, from the contribution made by the Principal Investigator through the development of the philosophy and social theory of Islamic critical realism (Wilkinson 2015a; 2018) and its application by our Coinvestigator (Quraishi, 2020).
• This critical realist framework provided a lens to make sense of the lives of Muslim prisoners in multiple, related ‘knock-on’ dimensions. For example, the dimensions of biology, sex-gender, the peer-group, education, employment and culture (Bhaskar, 2008; Irfan and Wilkinson, 2020) and, critically, included an evaluation of the religious Worldviews, religious practices and experiences of prison life.
• We provide a full technical account of our use of critical realist theory in other publications (Quraishi et al, 2021; Wilkinson et al, 2021).
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- Islam in PrisonFinding Faith, Freedom and Fraternity, pp. 256Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2022