The book seeks to provide an overview for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, clergy, corrections professionals, and volunteers of chaplains' role in helping prison management rehabilitate offenders in addition to their ministerial and administrative responsibilities. The book is divided into six chapters. Chapter One discusses chaplains' role, the need for prison ministry, fundamental counseling skills, and social theories of crime. Chapter Two is concerned with crime, delinquency theories, and substance abuse and its treatment and prevention. Chapter Three discusses how ministry can be wholesome when family fears, poverty, classism, and other issues such as prostitution, juvenile justice, and education are confronted. Chapter Four presents issues concerned with parenting, self-esteem, guilt, anger, and managing negative emotions. Chapter Five discusses the need for community support such as mentoring and minister of record involvement in the lives of inmates. It also presents Christian treatment modalities such as evangelism, discipleship, and spiritual formation in therapy. The final chapter discusses nontraditional religions encountered in prison, the Religious Freedom Reformation Act, cults, volunteers, and how to organize a prison ministry. Notes, index