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Pastoral care for the incarcerated : hope deferred, humanity diminished? / David Kirk Beedon.

Beedon, David Kirk, author.
2022
HV8865
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Title
Pastoral care for the incarcerated : hope deferred, humanity diminished? / David Kirk Beedon.
Author
Beedon, David Kirk, author.
ISBN
9783031132728 (electronic bk.)
3031132726 (electronic bk.)
9783031132711
3031132718
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13272-8
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-13272-8 doi
Call Number
HV8865
Dewey Decimal Classification
365/.665
Summary
This important, lucid book burns with compassion for those incarcerated in prisons, seeking to find authentic, realistic ways of enhancing humanity and hope in constrained, inadequate environments. Beedons well-researched text uniquely illuminates the situation of the many prisoners still held under indeterminate sentences in the UK, some of whom are encountered in their own words. It will be vital reading for prison chaplains and pastoral theorists as well as politicians, policy makers and those involved in justice systems around the world. Passion, analysis, realism and imagination meet here to create a salutary, inspiring read for anyone wanting to extend their understanding of prisons, criminals, pastoral care and sensitive research together with our common human frailty and potential. Stephen Pattison, Emeritus Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice, University of Birmingham, UK This book is a work of profound humane regard. It takes the loss of hope as its starting point and finds its way through the dark to a place of possibility. The author bears witness to men serving indeterminate prison sentences for public protection. Using found poems, and his own compassion, he describes the mens suffering, some ways forward, and a much-needed form of pastoral care. Alison Liebling, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Cambridge, UK This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity? Employing the multi-disciplinary approach of practical theology, this ethnographic enquiry will be a guide for chaplains and all who strive to embody compassion wherever human flourishing is undermined. The books structure follows the pastoral cycle method from practical theology, remaining context-based and practice-focused throughout. Pastoral insights are illustrated with personal, poetic and movingly reflective material drawn from the lived experience of indeterminately sentenced men who did not know if or when they would be ever released. The author, a former prison chaplain, remains reflexively and humanely present in the text, modelling the profound humane regard and pastoral presence that is central to this work. This book will take the reader deeply into penal spaces on a journey of both compassion and hope. David Kirk Beedon is an Anglican Priest and former chaplain in Her Majestys Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales. In 2020 he was awarded a Doctorate in Practical Theology for his prison-based research.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Where and How to Start
Beginnings
Contextual Factors
Practical Theology and the Pastoral Cycle
Methods in Practical Theology
The Living Human Document
Constructive Narrative Theology
Canonical Narrative Theology
Correlation
Praxis
Anonymisation
Summary
Found Poem: The Illusion of Time (ID17)
References
Part I: Defining the Issue
Chapter 2: Modern Mass Incarceration: Can it Be Humanised?
Introduction
The Purpose of Incarceration: A Swinging Pendulum

Incarceration: Modern and Mass
A House of Penance: The Penitentiary
The Industrialisation of Carceral Space
Prison Growth: The Race to Incarcerate
Race
Class
Gender
Summary Conclusion
Found Poem: We Have The Curse (ID27)
References
Chapter 3: A Case in Point: A Socio-Historical Critique of Indeterminate Sentences
Introduction
The Humane Genesis of Indeterminate Sentences
From Reform to Rehabilitation
The Birth and Almost Death of IPP
Folk Devils, Super-Predators and Dangerous Politics
Scapegoating and Blamemongering

Ethical Loneliness and Epistemic Injustice
Summary Conclusion
Found Poem: The Horror of It (ID39)
References
Part II: Describing the Context
Chapter 4: Entering Lived Experience: From Theory to Reality
Introduction
The Praxis of Pastoral Enquiry
Ethnography: Accessing 'Lived Experience'
Life-History Interviewing
Life as a Film (LAAF)
Staff Interviews: Appreciative Inquiry
Focus Groups
Finding Lost Voices
In Vivo Analysis
Found Poems
LAAF Movie Posters
Member-Checking
Narrative Truth or Ethnographic Evocation?
Summary Conclusion

Found Poem: Falling Through Life (ID43)
References
Chapter 5: Tales From the Shadow of Despair
Introduction
Life-Themes from Indeterminately Held Incarcerated Lives
Behaviour: "The Normality of Things" (ID38)
Development: "Troubled Childhood" (ID43)
The Affect of IPP: "The Emotions" (ID37)
Pervasive Toxic Liminality
Hope: "Better Must Come" (ID35)
Radical Hope in Carceral Space
Thinking: "It's Just Stupidness" (ID04)
Time: "The Illusion of Time" (ID17)
Relationality: "They Still Love Me" (ID30)
The (Non-)presence of Others

The Reflexive Pastoral Enquirer: A Wounded Healer
Reflexivity
Use of Self
A Holistic Christian Anthropology (Part I)
Heart (Emotional/Relational)
Mind (Intellectual/Psychological)
Soul (Spiritual/Transcendent)
Strength (Physical/Material)
Summary Conclusion
Found Poem: Getting A Proper Life (ID22)
References
Part III: Reflecting on Practice
Chapter 6: Seeking Humanity and Hope
Introduction
Being Human: A Theological Anthropology
Imago Dei Versus Right Realism
A Holistic Christian Anthropology (Part II)
'Being-in-Communion': Faith in Love

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