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Present	Professor, University of North Florida ‐ Criminology & Criminal Justice
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Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminology, and Sociology of Religion

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Prisoners Helping Prisoners Change: A Study of Inmate Field Ministers ...

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2020)

Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, Joshua Hays, Michael A. Hallett, et al.

Research on incarcerated offenders trained to help prisoners change is rare because programs that equip inmates with practical capacities for ...

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U.S. Prison Seminaries: Structural Charity, Religious Establishment, and Neoliberal ...

Prison Journal (2019)

Michael A. Hallett, Bryon Johnson, Joshua Hays, Sung Joon Jang, et al.

Using archival and site-based research, this article explores operational practices at six U.S. prison seminary programs regarding concepts of religious ...

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“Four Gods” in Maximum Security Prison: Images of God, Religiousness ...

Review of Religious Research (2018)

Sung Joon Jang, Joshua Hays, Byron R. Johnson, Michael A. Hallett, et al.

This paper extends research on images of God, which prior researchers based mostly on national survey data, to a study ...

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Existential and virtuous effects of religiosity on mental health and ...

Religions (2018)

Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, Joshua Hays, Michael A. Hallett, et al.

Although prior research tends to show that religion has a salutary effect on mental health and a preventive effect on ...

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Existential and virtuous effects of religiosity on mental health and ...

Religions (2018)

Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, Joshua Hayes, Michael A. Hallett, et al.

Although prior research tends to show that religion has a salutary effect on mental health and a preventive effect on ...

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Religion and Misconduct in “Angola” Prison: Conversion, Congregational Participation, Religiosity ...

Justice Quarterly (2018)

Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, Joshua Hays, Michael A. Hallett, et al.

Prior research tends to find an inverse relationship between inmates’ religion and misconduct in prison, but this relationship has lacked ...

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"First Stop Dying": Angola's Christian Seminary as Positive Criminology

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2017)

Michael A. Hallett, Joshua Hays, Byron Johnson, Sung Joon Jang, et al.

This article offers an ethnographic account of the "self-projects" of inmate graduates of Louisiana State Penitentiary's (aka "Angola's") unique prison ...

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Religiously motivated desistance: An exploratory study

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2015)

Michael A. Hallett and J. Stephen McCoy

This article examines the life-history narratives of 25 successful ex-offenders professing Christianity as the source of their desistance. Unstructured in-depth ...

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Bible College Participation and Prison Misconduct: A Preliminary Analysis

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (2015)

Grant Duwe, Michael A. Hallett, Joshua Hays, Sung Joon Jang, et al.

We analyzed whether a Bible college program had an impact on prison misconduct by examining 230 offenders in the Texas ...

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The resurgence of religion in America's prisons

Religions (2014)

Michael A. Hallett and Byron Johnson

This article discusses the growing prominence of "faith-based" programs in American corrections and the historical context of penal regime change ...

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