"Religion and Criminal Justice helps readers become religiously literate, especially as religion relates to criminal justice. The book addresses the influence of religion on the development of the justice system in the United States and enables readers to understand how this influence extends into the present day.
Section 1 presents numerous perspectives on the relationship between religion and criminal justice and includes an introduction to religious studies. Section 2 discusses the major religious traditions in America, and Section 3 is composed of various essays on religion...

*What happens when Seattle is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust? *When all a young boy wants for Christmas is the left hand he lost in an automobile accident the year before? *When a woman travels to San Diego to commit suicide after the overdose death of her only son? *When a young man plots to humiliate his attorney father, running for public office, by taking a job in an adult shop? *When a psychiatrist's bipolar patient invites him to become his copilot when the aliens come back for him in their time-space ship? *When a priest hears the confession of a serial killer and is helpless to...

There is something strange about Jack Wallace, the man Chloe Denhurst has hired to do odd jobs around her house. He never talks about himself, never mentions a family or friends. She sees sorrow in his eyes, and something else, something sinister. When his past comes back to haunt him, Chloe's own life and the life of her daughter are put in jeopardy. As the mystery deepens, Chloe gets pulled into a vortex of deception and murder.