Zefat Academic College, Zefat, Israel.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2021 Nov;65(15):1586-1606. doi: 10.1177/0306624X20944693. Epub 2020 Jul 24.
Religion and spiritual traditions entail vast wisdom and knowledge which have proved their productivity in achieving criminal rehabilitation, crime desistance, and crime prevention. Unfortunately, the literature on their role is relatively scarce and was not, until recently, regarded as part of mainstream criminology. This study used a hermeneutic phenomenological approach in which 39 participants were interviewed and many of the religious scriptures selected at their recommendation were analyzed. The findings reveal three central and unique themes that deal with the purpose of creation, human nature, and the question of free will. Through these premises, this study suggests that Spiritual Jewish criminology, a faith-based theory stemming from Jewish scriptures, offers a universal paradigm that explains a person's life as a spiritual journey, completed according to the Pyramid Model. The pyramid is built on two axes that describe a person's desirable movement: the first ranges from egocentrism to altrocentrism, while the second ranges from materialism to the spiritual. The study's discussion deals with the Pyramid Model's ability to explain the causes of delinquency, the onset of a criminal career, and the way out of this criminal world through treatment and rehabilitation.
宗教和精神传统蕴含着丰富的智慧和知识，事实证明，它们在促进罪犯改造、犯罪中止和预防犯罪方面具有成效。遗憾的是，关于宗教和精神传统在犯罪学中作用的相关文献相对较少，直到最近，它们才被视为主流犯罪学的一部分。本研究采用了阐释现象学方法，对 39 名参与者进行了访谈，并分析了他们推荐的许多宗教经文。研究结果揭示了三个核心且独特的主题，涉及创造的目的、人性以及自由意志的问题。通过这些前提，本研究表明，源于犹太教经文的以信仰为基础的犹太精神犯罪学理论提供了一种普遍的范式，可以将人的生活解释为一种精神之旅，按照金字塔模型完成。金字塔建立在两个轴上，描述了一个人理想的运动：第一个轴从自我中心主义到利他主义，第二个轴从唯物主义到精神主义。研究的讨论涉及到金字塔模型解释犯罪原因、犯罪生涯开始以及通过治疗和康复摆脱犯罪世界的能力。
