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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leigey, Margaret E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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