Re-entry is a challenge for all inmates, but it is especially more difficult for women. Female ex-inmates are economically marginalized because of the many different challenges they face when looking for employment. Men face the same barriers but the training jobs that are available to inmates are often focused on male dominated professions. The first step to help women offenders is to forgive them of their sins and offer them guidance to live law-abiding lives.
The main motive has always been about protecting society from individuals in jail but what about those individuals that need help to improve their mentality. From a Christian perspective, our response to crime is a test of our morals. The hermeneutical circle is an approach to promote crime prevention and genuine rehabilitation. According to USCCB, there must be recognition that the dignity of the human person applies to both the victim and offender. The increase of prisons and executions does not reflect Christian values. Christian tradition and faith are better alternatives that can challenge offenders to change their lives and reach out to victims to reject vengeance. …show more content…
Approaching these questions can offer society another way to understand and respond to crime (USCCB 2000). The Bible itself reveals those doctrines that are essential to the Christian faith. And one of those doctrines is salvation by grace. Grace is getting what we do not deserve from God (Slick). To be saved by grace means that the judgment due to us, because of our sin against God, is forgiven. Offenders get what they deserved. They did their time in jail and that is justice. The only way to be saved by grace is to trust what Jesus did on the cross. He paid for our sins even though he never sinned himself. That is why the Bible tells us that we are made right before God by faith (Romans
The main motive has always been about protecting society from individuals in jail but what about those individuals that need help to improve their mentality. From a Christian perspective, our response to crime is a test of our morals. The hermeneutical circle is an approach to promote crime prevention and genuine rehabilitation. According to USCCB, there must be recognition that the dignity of the human person applies to both the victim and offender. The increase of prisons and executions does not reflect Christian values. Christian tradition and faith are better alternatives that can challenge offenders to change their lives and reach out to victims to reject vengeance. …show more content…
Approaching these questions can offer society another way to understand and respond to crime (USCCB 2000). The Bible itself reveals those doctrines that are essential to the Christian faith. And one of those doctrines is salvation by grace. Grace is getting what we do not deserve from God (Slick). To be saved by grace means that the judgment due to us, because of our sin against God, is forgiven. Offenders get what they deserved. They did their time in jail and that is justice. The only way to be saved by grace is to trust what Jesus did on the cross. He paid for our sins even though he never sinned himself. That is why the Bible tells us that we are made right before God by faith (Romans