The book that I chose for this critique is Criminals of the Bible: Twenty- Five Cases of Biblical Crimes and Outlaws, by Mark Jones. This book is both interesting and intriguing. It was interesting in the concepts of how many criminal actions that took place during the time of the Bible mimic many of the crimes committed in society today. Although the punishments today are a lot different, they still carry the same type of stiff punishments that they did in the Bible. The intriguing part of the book was that the types of crimes and criminals in the Bible, such as murder, rape, incest, treason etc. are the same types of crimes heard in courtrooms around the country on a daily basis. The author also brings the Biblical crimes into today’s world with examples and modern day explanations and examples that make the reader look forward to the next page. This is the type of book that all criminal justice students, whether they have a biblical worldview or not should read.
The book contains crimes that include murder, rape, war crimes, human trafficking, and even espionage just to name a few. It begins with one of the first crimes in the Bible that is when Cain killed Abel in the field after luring him …show more content…
In Biblical times it was a crime that usually ended in punishment. For example the story of David and Bathsheba, even though Bathsheba was married, she had sex with David and had gotten pregnant, David in turn had her husband put into a position during fighting that would have him killed, and after a while David and Bathsheba were married and they had a son and named him Solomon. In today’s society “adultery is an all-to-common behavior” (Jones, 2006, p. 103), as “society is more tolerant of adultery today than it was in David’s lifetime” (Jones, 2006, p.
The book contains crimes that include murder, rape, war crimes, human trafficking, and even espionage just to name a few. It begins with one of the first crimes in the Bible that is when Cain killed Abel in the field after luring him …show more content…
In Biblical times it was a crime that usually ended in punishment. For example the story of David and Bathsheba, even though Bathsheba was married, she had sex with David and had gotten pregnant, David in turn had her husband put into a position during fighting that would have him killed, and after a while David and Bathsheba were married and they had a son and named him Solomon. In today’s society “adultery is an all-to-common behavior” (Jones, 2006, p. 103), as “society is more tolerant of adultery today than it was in David’s lifetime” (Jones, 2006, p.