(Executive Summary) FAITH, FAMILY and CRIME An exploration of Muslim families' involvement with the Criminal Justice System and its impact on their health and social needs

Arooj has more than 10 years of community-based experience working to deliver holistic, culturally appropriate, and specifi c support services to BAME and Muslim off enders/ex-off enders and their families, particularly within South Asian communities. In 2014, Arooj produced a report based on original research with 115 Muslim people with criminal convictions. This research highlighted a range of structural, cultural and religious factors that impacted on the rehabilitation of Muslim people leaving prison or completing a community sentence. In 2017, with support from Barrow Cadbury Trust, Arooj, in partnership with Professor Edward Abbott-Halpin at Leeds Beckett University and Dr Christine Hough from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), started a project to look in more depth at the issues which arose from the 2014 research, through one-to-one interviews with prisoners’ families from Muslim communities across the North West. It is hoped that the research will identify for Muslim families a range of available support services for when a family member is involved with the CJS as well as make policy recommendations for the CJS, policy-makers and NGOs working with prisoners’ families.

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