This unique collection brings together international contributors from a range of disciplines to explore crime and responses to crime through a religious/faith-based lens. At a time when religion is under the media spotlight in terms of religiously-motivated hate crime, terrorism and child abuse this book provides an important platform for academic debate. It examines these and other key issues including: faith as a coping strategy, religion as a motivating factor and the role of religion and morality in shaping criminal justice responses.

Introduction: Religion, Faith and Crime in Context; Kim Sadique and Perry Stanislas.- Part I. Historical and Theoretical Context.- Chapter 1. The Effect of Religion on Crime and Deviancy: Hellfire in the 21st Century; Kim Sadique.- Chapter 2. Is Lex Talionis 'Caput' in a Modern CJS: The Religio-Cultural Context of Punishment; Kim Sadique.- Chapter 3. Disability and Religious Cosmologies-A New Interpretation of Disablist Hate; Alan Roulstone.- Chapter 4. Faith, Mental Health & Deviance: Possession or Illness?; Stephen Handsley.- Chapter 5. Theorising Religion, Crime and the System of Criminal Justice: A Moral Rconomy Perspective; Philip Whitehead.- Part II. Identities and Issues.- Chapter 6. Cultural Beliefs, Witchcraft and Crimes in South Africa; Theodore Petrus.- Chapter 7. Challenges of Late Modernity, Religion, Homophobia, and Crime: Police and Criminal Justice Reform in Jamaica and Uganda; Perry Stanislas.- Chapter 8. Child Abuse and theChurch; Jodi Death.- Chapter 9. "Rejected and dejected": The Impacts and Contexts of Islamophobic Violence; Barbara Perry.- Chapter 10. "If There is a God I Will be Allowed to Enter Heaven as All Other Martyrs" - Anders Behring Breivik and Religiously inspired 'Righteous Slaughter'; James Treadwell.- Chapter 11. Polygamy, American Style: Empire, Faith, Law and Bad Public Policy; Jacob W. Petterchak.- Chapter 12. Power and Citizenship in the Social Media Networks: British Muslims, Crime Prevention and Social Engagement; Noureddine Miladi.- Chapter 13. Spirituality and the Black Community: Criminality, Victimisation and Wellbeing; Bertha Ochieng.- Chapter 14. Changing Religious Influences: Young People, Crime and Extremism in Nigeria; Perry Stanislas and Iyah Iyah.- Chapter 15. Faith and Identity in Prison; Alison Booker and Helen Dearnley.