A Theology of Justice: Interpreting John Rawls in Corrections Ethics - An Ethnography - Hardcover

by Larry Donell Covin (Author), Marvin Crawford (Foreword by)

There are thirty-eight ethical statements-principles throughout the seven chapters of A Theology of Justice. These ethical statements form a comprehensive corrections ethic informed by the human rights abuses occurring in jails and prisons in the United States, offering evidence-based correctives. This corrections ethic is informed by twenty years of qualitative research inside four jail and prison institutions, as an administrator of both Treatment and Religious Services departments; including the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth, United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Maryland Division of Pretrial Detention and Services, and the Adams County Adult Correctional Complex in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A Theology of Justice is foundational toward a corrections ethic, and reflective of disciplines possessing extensive research in the development of its ethics, such as business ethics and medical ethics.

Author Biography

Larry Donell Covin Jr. is the author of Thirteen Turns: A Theology Resurrected from the Gallows of Jim Crow Christianity. He is the Systematic Theologian-Religion Scholar at Historic Trinity UCC Church (1742) York, Pennsylvania. He earned a BS from Albany State University, MDiv from the Interdenominational Theological Center, DMin from Lancaster Theological Seminary at Moravian University, and a Postdoctoral-Research ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary. For over twenty years he taught at the university and seminary level.