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Author:   Susan F. Sharp ,  Raymond Michalowski ,  Michael L. Radelet
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780813535845

ISBN 10:   0813535840
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   08 June 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword by Michael L. Radelet Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Death Penalty, Victims' Families, and Families of Prisoners 2. Dealing with the Horror: ""We're Sentenced, Too"": Families of Individuals Facing a Death Sentence 3. Trying to Cope: Withdrawal, Anger, and Joining 4. The Grief Process: Denial and Horror, the BADD Cycle (Bargaining, Activity, Disillusionment, and Desperation} 5. Facing the End: Families and Execution 6. Aftermath: Picking Up the Pieces 7. ""But He's Innocent"" 8. Double Losers: Being Both a Victim's Family Member and an Offender's Family Member 9. Family after the Fact: Fictive Kin and Death Row Marriages 10. The Death Penalty and Families, Revisited 11. Conclusion Appendix A. Death Row Visitation Policies (Social/Family Visits) Appendix B. Interview Schedule for Initial Interviews Appendix C. Demographics of Interview Subjects Notes Bibliography Index"

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Without denying the horror of the crimes that most death row inmates have committed or the need for confinement of those inmates, Sharp raises the question of whether Americans would still support the death penalty if they understood the full range of its consequences. It is a sobering question that readers of this book will be forced to ponder. -from the foreword by Michael L. Radelet, professor and chair, department of sociology, University of Colorado

Without denying the horror of the crimes that most death row inmates have committed or the need for confinement of those inmates, Sharp raises the question of whether Americans would still support the death penalty if they understood the full range of its consequences. It is a sobering question that readers of this book will be forced to ponder. -from the foreword by Michael L. Radelet, professor and chair, department of sociology, University of Colorado

Author Information

SUSAN F. SHARP is David Ross Boyd Professor of Sociology and is affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also a faculty fellow with the College of Liberal Studies, the Department of Human Relations, and the Organizational Leadership Program. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas-Austin in 1996. Her research focuses on female crime and deviance, the incarceration of women, and the impact of corrections policies on families of offenders. Her recent research has focused on theoretical explanations of female criminal behaviors from a life course perspective, exploring how multiple marginalities may steer women into criminal and/or deviant behaviors. She has served on the executive board of the American Society of Criminology and was the founding editor of Feminist Criminology, the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.  Dr. Sharp’s current research focuses on jail diversionary programs for female offenders.

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