The Forgotten Men : Serving a Life without Parole Sentence /

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"Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging from murder and rape to burglary, carjacking, and drug offences. In The Forgotten Men, criminologist Margaret E. Leigey provides an insightful acco...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Leigey, Margaret E. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Parole.
Life imprisonment.
Capital punishment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
Reclusion à perpetuite > États-Unis.
Liberation conditionnelle > États-Unis.
Capital punishment > United States.
Life imprisonment > United States.
Parole > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface: death by incarceration
  • Acknowledgements
  • The rise in the permanently incarcerated
  • The forgotten
  • The pains of permanent imprisonment
  • Coping with permanent incarceration
  • Growing old in prison
  • Forgotten no more
  • Appendix A: Pseudonyms and demographics of respondents
  • Appendix B: Researching the forgotten
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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