Hidden Victims : The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused /
In the US, murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are usually considered as entirely different from the rest of us. Sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges perspective by reminding us that those facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fat...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The death penalty, victims' families, and families of prisoners
- Dealing with the horror : "we're sentenced, too"
- Trying to cope: withdrawal, anger, and joining
- The grief process : denial and horror, the BADD cycle (bargaining, activity, disillusionment and desperation)
- Facing the end : families and execution
- Aftermath : picking up the pieces
- "But he's innocent--" : dealing with wrongful accusations and convictions
- Double losers : being both a victim's family member and an offender's family member
- Family after the fact : fictive kin and death row marriages
- The death penalty and families, revisited
- Conclusion.