Religion, Crime and Punishment: An Evolutionary Perspective - Couverture souple

Durrant, Russil; Poppelwell, Zoe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319877925 ISBN 13 : 9783319877921

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders. The authors argue that in order to understand how religion is related to each of these domains it is essential to recognise the evolutionary origins of religion as well as how genetic and cultural evolutionary processes have shaped its essential characteristics. Durrant and Poppelwell posit that the capacity of religion to bind individuals into socially cohesive ‘moral communities’ can help us to understand its complex relationship with cooperation, crime, punishment, inter-group conflict and forgiveness. An original and innovative study, this book will be of special interest to criminologists and other social scientists interested in the role of religion in crime, punishment, intergroup conflict and law.    

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Russil Durrant is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Zoe Poppelwell is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Anthropology programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319877925
• ISBN 13: 9783319877921
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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