Hidden victims : the effects of the death penalty on families of the accused /

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America is fascinated with murder, as evidenced by the media's elaborate and often sensational coverage of homicides, the plethora of recreated television crime programs-such as America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries-and the number of high-grossing films and best-selling novels that...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sharp, Susan F., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005.
Series:Critical issues in crime and society.
Subjects:
Capital punishment > United States.
Death row inmates > Family relationships > United States.
Prisoners' families > United States.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
Condamnés à mort > Relations familiales > États-Unis.
Familles de prisonniers > États-Unis.
SELF-HELP > Adult Children of Substance Abusers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Capital punishment
Prisoners' families
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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