Reforming Our Responses to Crime: Recent Papal Contributions
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Fleming, Julia
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2019
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18
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Pope Francis and his immediate predecessors, Benedict XVI and John Paul II, offer a positive vision of an appropriate societal response to crime and to criminals by emphasizing human dignity, rehabilitation, and social reconciliation. Their approach critiques today’s excessive focus upon punishment at the expense of prevention and rehabilitation, especially in respect to low-level crime. By contrast, the popes argue that modern states give insufficient attention to macro-level crime and corruption. Correction of these imbalances will serve the common good and provide much-needed reform of contemporary justice systems. |Keywords: crime, justice, punishment, Francis, incarceration
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Fleming, J. (2019). Reforming Our Responses to Crime: Recent Papal Contributions. Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series, 18, 135-150.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1941-8450